Official White House website launches arcade games where users arrest immigrants and build a border wall

The Trump administration launched a series of arcade-style games on the official White House website Thursday to tout its priorities — the latest turn in its aggressive online effort to troll Democrats that has at times surfaced racist and offensive images.

The White House’s online arcade includes games where players capture people at the southern border and build a border wall .

In the game “Rio Run,” users “patrol the line” along the Rio Grande and “pick up every crosser in the lot” to earn a high score of deportations. The user icon in the Snake-style game is an older White man in a blue tie, and the “crossers” appear to be Brown, Black or White.

When the player catches one of the “crossers,” they suddenly appear in an orange jumpsuit and follow behind the player.

Another immigration-themed game is called “Build The Wall” and asks users to stack bricks and “hold the line” against a “zombie border siege.”

Other games prompt users to fly a bald eagle along the National Mall or fill their “kids’ Trump accounts” by catching diamonds and cash.

A White House official told CNN, “this is an effort to further contrast between a culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America.”

Trump and the White House have drawn sharp criticism for their aggressive use of social media and official government platforms– including by using racist and offensive images, like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and the Obamas depicted as apes in a jungle.

While some people are posting their scores from the White House’s arcade games on X, others are questioning the administration’s priorities given the Iran war and high cost of living.

In November, CNN reported on Trump 2.0’s unconventional approach to the White House website, with one official saying, “The website is informative in a lot of different ways, but it’s also a vehicle to push our message, and we’re able to weaponize it in a way that no other administration has been able to do.”

周四，特朗普政府在白宫官方网站上推出了一系列街机风格的游戏，以宣传其优先事项——这是其咄咄逼人的网络攻击民主党人的最新举措，此前该政府曾发布过种族主义和冒犯性图片。

白宫的在线游戏厅里有一些游戏，玩家可以在游戏中抓捕南部边境的人，并建造边境墙。

在名为“里约快跑”（Rio Run）的游戏中，玩家沿着格兰德河“巡逻”，并“抓捕所有越境者”，以获得最高的遣返分数。这款类似贪吃蛇的游戏的玩家头像是一位系着蓝色领带的白人老者，而“越境者”则呈现出棕色、黑色或白色三种肤色。

当玩家抓住其中一个“过马路者”时，他们会突然穿上橙色连体服，跟在玩家身后。

另一款以移民为主题的游戏名为“建墙”，要求用户堆叠砖块，抵御“僵尸边境围攻”，“坚守阵线”。

其他游戏则引导用户驾驶秃鹰沿着国家广场飞行，或者通过捕捉钻石和现金来填满他们的“孩子的特朗普账户”。

一位白宫官员告诉 CNN，“这是为了进一步凸显一种充满乐趣和胜利的文化与民主党人对美国所抱有的黑暗社会主义愿景之间的对比。”

特朗普和白宫因过度使用社交媒体和官方政府平台而受到严厉批评，其中包括使用种族主义和冒犯性图片，例如众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯戴着墨西哥帽，以及将奥巴马夫妇描绘成丛林中的猿猴。

当一些人在 X 上发布他们在白宫街机游戏中取得的分数时，另一些人则质疑鉴于伊朗战争和高昂的生活成本，本届政府的优先事项是什么。

11 月，CNN 报道了特朗普 2.0 对白宫网站的非常规做法，一位官员表示：“该网站在很多方面都提供了信息，但它也是我们宣传信息的工具，我们能够以其他任何一届政府都无法做到的方式将其武器化。”