The U.S. White House on Sept. 3 (local time) unveiled Arcade, an online games page that lets users experience major policies of President Donald Trump like classic arcade games. It promotes key administration agendas in game form, including immigration enforcement and a border wall, health policy and children’s investment accounts.
Arcade is operated directly on the White House’s official website. Five games are currently available: Flappy Bill, Build The Wall, Rio Run, Supply Line and Trump Savings Tycoon. Additional games were teased as “Coming Soon.”
Flappy Bill is similar to the popular mobile game Flappy Bird. Users control a bald eagle flying with a bill in its claws as it passes through the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The game is based on the Trump administration’s large tax cut and spending law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Build The Wall is a Tetris-like game in which players stack blocks to create a border wall. The completed line does not disappear, and players must block characters approaching from the other side of the screen. If the wall is breached, the message “BORDER BREACHED” appears. Rio Run is designed like a snake game, moving around the Rio Grande area to capture characters crossing the border. Both games reflect the Trump administration’s hardline immigration and border policies.
In Supply Line, players remove items containing additives from foods moving along a school lunch line. It is based on the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) plan. Trump Savings Tycoon involves collecting money that appears on the screen to fill a children’s investment account called a “Trump account.”
A White House official described the site as intended “to tell the story of President Trump’s policies and contrast them with Democratic policies.” It is a new form of government promotional strategy designed to let users interact directly rather than simply read about policies.