Game on, history off: White House unveils MAGA arcade

A White House website featuring arcade games is photographed on a computer screen (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondant from Washington: America has spent 250 years arguing about how it was built. The White House has now settled the matter in the most authoritative medium available to the United States: a video game.The Trump administration on Friday unveiled “Arcade,” five retro-style games on the official White House website, turning pieces of President Trump’s MAGA agenda into pixelated entertainment. The collection includes games titled “Build the Wall,” “Rio Run,” “Supply Line,” “Flappy Bill” and “Trump Savings Tycoon.”If this sounds like something dreamed up by a teenager who has consumed too much caffeine, that is roughly the aesthetic. The White House promotional material riffs on the loading screens of Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo, even transforming the Sega logo into “MAGA.” The launch slogan was suitably subtle: “Can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.”But two immigration games are generating fireworks. “Build the Wall” is essentially Tetris, a Soviet-era game, with immigration policy overtones.Players stack wall sections to “protect the bord...