Tetris Company Denounces White House Border Game Clone 1 Day After MAGA Arcade Launch
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 4
Tetris Company Denounces White House Border Game Clone 1 Day After MAGA Arcade Launch
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 4
Summary
The Tetris Company said it had no role in the White House’s “Build the Wall” game and rebuked its use of Tetris-style gameplay to depict blocking aliens and zombies at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The official government page, posted Thursday, featured five simple games promoting Trump administration policies, including the Tetris clone subtitled “Zombie Border Siege” and a Snake-style game about catching and imprisoning immigrants.
In its statement, the company said Tetris stands for “connection” and “bringing people together, not dividing them,” making the objection both a rights issue and a rejection of the game’s anti-immigration message.
The dispute extends a pattern of creators objecting to Trump administration use of their work, now tied to a MAGA-themed arcade site unveiled a day earlier to showcase second-term achievements.