White House launches Arcade.gov, a minigame site parodying immigration enforcement and border security
The White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a website of browser minigames built around Donald Trump's immigration and border policies.
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The White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a website of browser minigames built around Donald Trump's immigration and border policies.
The short version
- As spotted by IGN , the site includes mini-games based on games like Flappy Bird.
- A snake-like game called Rio Run wants you to collect a chain of prisoners in orange jumpsuits, tallying a "deported" count at the end of each run.
- In a tweet, the administration wrote: "Build the wall.
What happened
A fifth game, Supply Line, is styled as a school-lunch sorting game: vegetables get waved through, while anything the game brands an "offensive foodstuff" gets knocked off the belt. Videos posted to social media parody the boot-up sequence animations of retro consoles like PS2 and Xbox 360, alongside a Sega-esque logo reading "Maga".
Why it matters
Administration spokesperson Abigail Jackson has previously defended the strategy, telling The New York Times: "Through engaging posts and banger memes, we are successfully communicating the president's extremely popular agenda.
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