White House's 'Build the Wall' Game Bricked by Tetris

Administration pulls Tetris-style immigration game from its website after a copyright threat
Posted Sep 9, 2026 11:59 AM CDT
White House's 'Build the Wall' Game Doesn't Land With Tetris
A White House website featuring arcade games is photographed on a computer screen Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026.   (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

The White House's experiment with a MAGA-branded arcade just lost its Tetris clone. "Build the Wall," a browser game on the official White House arcade site that had users stacking digital "bricks" to fend off a "zombie border siege" along the southern border, disappeared this week after the Tetris Company publicly objected, reports NBC News. "The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of 'Build the Wall,'" it said in an Instagram post. "P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously."

An archived version of the site shows the game was live Monday but gone by Tuesday; it currently returns a 404 error, notes TechCrunch. Other Trump agenda-themed games that resemble Snake and Flappy Bird remain online, as do promo videos that riff on classic Xbox, Sega, Nintendo, and "Legend of Zelda" branding. The companies behind those originals, like Tetris, did not respond to NBC's requests for comment.

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