{"id":3497,"date":"2026-09-04T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-white-house-is-making-arcade-games-racist\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:42:54","slug":"the-white-house-is-making-arcade-games-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-white-house-is-making-arcade-games-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House is making arcade games racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Trump\u2019s racist new \u201cBuild the Wall\u201d game. | Image: The White House\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The White House\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-04-at-3.23.13-PM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tTrump\u2019s racist new \u201cBuild the Wall\u201d game. | Image: The White House\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed \u00ab\u00a0arcade\u00a0\u00bb games, some of which are racist &#8211; and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tetris Company has already responded to \u00ab\u00a0Build the Wall,\u00a0\u00bb which is obviously modeled on the famous puzzle game. In the Trump administration&rsquo;s game, the player has to stack interlocking shapes to stop a \u00ab\u00a0zombie border siege\u00a0\u00bb along the southern border. Aliens &#8211; the administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/939789\/white-house-aliens-announcement-ice-mass-deportations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preferred term for noncitizens<\/a>, and the subject of previous grotesque attempts at humor &#8211; run across the screen, trying to  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/990520\/trump-arcade-games-maga-copyright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s racist new \u201cBuild the Wall\u201d game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}