The White House is making arcade games racist

OxO4 22 points 13 comments September 04, 2026
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Cider9986

https://arcade.gov

nielsbot

Curious who will be playing and enjoying these

bitbasher

Why is building a wall racist?

jdlshore

To be clear, the administration is making racist arcade games (e.g., a Tetris knock-off about the Mexican border that portrays Mexicans as literal aliens and zombies), not causing other people to make their arcade games racist.

snickerbockers

Isn't the goal of tetris to not build the wall!?!? EDIT: good lord this is cringe, it doesn't even clear lines when you complete them. It's impossible to not get a game-over because the screen fills up regardless of whether or not you play well. Not that I was ever expecting quality from Donald Trump's vibecode boomer-meme slop but I thought they could at least bother to correctly implement the simplest and most recognizable video game of all time, especially since it's going on whitehouse.gov.

esalman

These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.

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