The White House Made an Arcade Game Out of Deporting People
The new White House "arcade" website lets users live out their pixelated border patrol fantasy.Mother Jones illustration; Whitehouse.gov Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. As of September 3, the official White House website features a page titled “arcade,” where users can play games like Rio Run, in which the player—a pixelated, white, and balding Border Patrol agent—collects “border crossers” and adds them to a line of orange-jumpsuited figures trailing behind him. It’s a retro-cutesy version of the nightmarish and very real scenes of ICE agents forcing immigrants, chained in a line, onto deportation planes.
- ▪The new White House "arcade" website lets users live out their pixelated border patrol fantasy.Mother Jones illustration; Whitehouse.gov Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.
- ▪As of September 3, the official White House website features a page titled “arcade,” where users can play games like Rio Run, in which the player—a pixelated, white, and balding Border Patrol agent—collects “border crossers” and adds them t
- ▪It’s a retro-cutesy version of the nightmarish and very real scenes of ICE agents forcing immigrants, chained in a line, onto deportation planes.
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| Original publisher | Mother Jones |
| Canonical URL | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-arcade-deportation-rio-run-military-gaming-recruitment/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:53:06 +0000 |
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The new White House "arcade" website lets users live out their pixelated border patrol fantasy.Mother Jones illustration; Whitehouse.gov Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As of September 3, the official White House website features a page titled “arcade,” where users can play games like Rio Run, in which the player—a pixelated, white, and balding Border Patrol agent—collects “border crossers” and adds them to a line of orange-jumpsuited figures trailing behind him. It’s a retro-cutesy version of the nightmarish and very real scenes of ICE agents forcing immigrants, chained in a line, onto deportation planes.
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