The company that owns Tetris has publicly threatened the White House over a game that plays like the classic block-stacker, saying it takes copyright infringement “very seriously.”
The Trump administration launched an online arcade of MAGA-themed retro games on Thursday, including a Tetris-style “Build the Wall,” subtitled “Zombie Border Siege.”
In the game, players stack falling blocks into a southern-border barrier and try to keep cartoon zombies and other figures from crossing.
If the stack hits the top, the screen reads “BORDER BREACHED.”
The White House X account plugged the launch with the line “Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.”
Naturally, leftists were outraged by the game.
The very premise of this game is concerning.
Treating illegal border crossers like zombies?
“Build the Wall” is like Tetris, but zombies come to attack your progress. https://t.co/xZNjRSsayg pic.twitter.com/NsE8mS2FhM— Gooboberti (@Gooboberti) September 4, 2026
In a statement posted to social media, the company that owns Tetris said it believes in “the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them,” added a P.S. that it had nothing to do with “Build the Wall,” and a P.P.S. that it takes copyright infringement very seriously.
P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’.
P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously. pic.twitter.com/Fu02khRpT3
— Tetris (@Tetris_Official) September 4, 2026
Spokesperson Kerri Brusca told The Verge the company is “currently reviewing the matter.”
“For more than 40 years, Tetris has brought people together across generations and cultures through play and joy. The objective of the game has always been to stack with purpose to clear as many lines as possible,” Brusca said. “We are currently reviewing the matter.”
No lawsuit has been announced as of Saturday morning.
In 2012, a U.S. district judge sided with the company against an iPhone clone called Mino and held that Tetris’s look and feel can be protected.
Other games from the White House include “Rio Run,” which plays like Snake along the Rio Grande. “Flappy Bill” is Flappy Bird with a bald eagle hauling legislation over the National Mall. “Trump Savings Tycoon” has players collect money for Trump Accounts. “Supply Line” centers on the administration’s Make America Healthy Again pitch.
🧐 The White House has launched https://t.co/6deFynkWcj, a new section of the Trump admin website that features several browser games, including a Snake-inspired one in which the user apparently plays as Tom Homan rounding up immigrants. pic.twitter.com/iACP9aWNqt
— Benjamin S. Weiss (@BenjaminSWeiss) September 3, 2026
A promo trailer also morphed a Sega-style logo into “MAGA.”
CAN’T STOP WINNING. 🎮
Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.
LIVE – PLAY NOW 📲 https://t.co/qIR69AxSnm pic.twitter.com/2nr2jG1ZRg
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 3, 2026
Sega, Nintendo, Xbox, and Flappy Bird have not commented on the parody games.
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