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Sometimes, it feels like the White House and, by extension, the Trump Administration, thinks it can do whatever it wants. Case in point: the White House shared an Animal Crossing-style video on X with what appears to be no official collaboration in place. Because the video shows Donald Trump as an Animal Crossing character in a world that looks like what you see in the video game, it left people wondering how the White House is even allowed to do that.
Sure, other social media users might share custom videos with their Animal Crossing characters, but this is the White House we’re talking about. You would think that a video game has no place in politics, but lo and behold, Trump’s White House apparently says differently. Now, people are calling for Nintendo to sue, well, someone.
It’s not clear if the White House actually got permission to do the ‘Animal Crossing’ video.
MAKE AMERICAN FARMING GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ntv6eNkML9
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 27, 2026
The Animal Crossing video features Trump in the Oval Office. He then leaves his home to head outside to his farm. Behind him, some obvious Animal Crossing characters pop up out of the crops to greet him. It’s all in the name of making “American farming great again,” per the X post. There’s also a little icon on the video that mentions National Agriculture Week and thanks farmers. And that’s totally fine. However, the use of Animal Crossing seems a bit odd.
Mostly, it seems like the video was made using AI or something similar and it’s made in a similar style as Animal Crossing without actually being directly from the game. But the idea is still there, and we can all see what the White House was trying to do with this post. It’s also very unlikely that anyone went through the proper channels to seek out approval or permission from Nintendo, the company behind Animal Crossing.
“Instead of help, the White House gives farmers a cartoon,” someone commented in response to the X post.
And the timing is just as terrible as possible. “We are literally at war and they are posting s–t like this,” another user wrote. “It doesn’t matter what side you’re on…you should feel insulted that he thinks y’all are this stupid. Everyone at this point knows that everything he says is to make sure it doesn’t harm the market.”
People think Nintendo should sue the White House.
While some Trump supporters commented on the post to rage bait people who didn’t love the Animal Crossing-style video, others left serious comments to urge Nintendo to take legal action against the White House or Trump. Someone even wrote that seeing the video on the White House X account makes them not want to play other Nintendo games.
It’s possible that the video was altered just enough to be passable. But the White House social media accounts have a way of making memes and videos that take songs or other pieces of pop culture and add them into actual propaganda. The consequences? Well, no one seems to be worried about those, ever.
Nintendo spoke out against the White House using a game design before.
MAGA 🇺🇸⚡️ pic.twitter.com/8QRVP23zGu
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 5, 2026
The Animal Crossing fiasco isn’t the first time the White House has come under fire for using a Nintendo product, or something that clearly looks exactly like it, in a social media video that promotes the administration. In early March 2026, the White House posted a Make America Great Again animated photo that looks like it is straight from Pokémon Pokopia.
At the time, according to NBC News, a spokesperson for Pokémon Company International said, “We were not involved in its creation or distribution, and no permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property. Our mission is to bring the world together, and that mission is not affiliated with any political viewpoint or agenda.”
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