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.

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.

Other games on the site include Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege, a Tetris riff where players stack bricks against incoming "aliens" at the "Southern Border", and Trump Savings Tycoon, which has a Washington DC backdrop and a falling-object catching mechanic, with memecoins and cash standing in for the usual coins or fruit, all in service of the game's stated goal to "fill your kids' Trump Accounts".

In a tweet, the administration wrote: "Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account".

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".

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. There's a reason so many people try to copy our style - our message resonates".

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