{"id":24730,"date":"2026-09-04T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/the-trump-white-houses-fetish-for-gamer-culture-has-moved-up-a-level-with-new-arcade\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:37:16","slug":"the-trump-white-houses-fetish-for-gamer-culture-has-moved-up-a-level-with-new-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/the-trump-white-houses-fetish-for-gamer-culture-has-moved-up-a-level-with-new-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump White House\u2019s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"

A string of distractions on the US government\u2019s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants \u2013 showing gaming\u2019s potential to be nastily weaponised<\/p>\n

The Trump White House on Thursday released a horrible little propaganda arcade<\/a> via its website, a collection of nasty little riffs on popular games. Wrapped in the cutesy, nostalgic aesthetic of early-90s pixel art, these little fascist diversions are harmless-looking, but their intent is stomach-turning: this is the appropriation of play in service of propaganda. It\u2019s just the latest in a series of attempts from Trump\u2019s administration to use video game memes and imagery<\/a> to further its messaging.<\/p>\n

Having riffed on Halo and Pok\u00e9mon in social media ads last year, inviting potential ICE recruits to \u201cstop the flood\u201d and \u201ccatch \u2019em all\u201d, this time the administration has ripped off a series of recognisable games. Flappy Bill, perhaps the least gross, is a version of the old mobile hit Flappy Bird, except here you\u2019re an eagle with a scroll in its claws. Supply Line could almost be an educational game about healthy food in schools, where you sort junk food off a conveyor belt destined for school lunches, except for some reason you play as a boxer who becomes more bloodied with every seed-oil containing, ultra-processed food item that you fail to punch into the garbage chute.<\/p>\n

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\nA string of distractions on the US government\u2019s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants \u2013 showing gaming\u2019s potential to be nastily weaponised
\nThe Trump White House on Thursday released a horrible little propaganda arcade via its website, a collection of nasty little riffs on popular games. Wrapped in the cutesy, nostalgic aesthetic of early-90s pixel art, these little fascist diversions are harmless-looking, but their intent is stomach-turning: this is the appropriation of play in service of propaganda. It\u2019s just the latest in a series of attempts from Trump\u2019s administration to use video game memes and imagery to further its messaging.
\nHaving riffed on Halo and Pok\u00e9mon in social media ads last year, inviting potential ICE recruits to \u201cstop the flood\u201d and \u201ccatch \u2019em all\u201d, this time the administration has ripped off a series of recognisable games. Flappy Bill, perhaps the least gross, is a version of the old mobile hit Flappy Bird, except here you\u2019re an eagle with a scroll in its claws. Supply Line could almost be an educational game about healthy food in schools, where you sort junk food off a conveyor belt destined for school lunches, except for some reason you play as a boxer who becomes more bloodied with every seed-oil containing, ultra-processed food item that you fail to punch into the garbage chute. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A string of distractions on the US government\u2019s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants \u2013 showing gaming\u2019s potential to be nastily weaponised The Trump White House on Thursday released a horrible little propaganda arcade via its website, a collection of nasty little riffs on popular games. Wrapped in the cutesy, nostalgic aesthetic of …<\/p>\n

The Trump White House\u2019s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}