Trump candidacy is easy target for game makers
WASHINGTON — President Obama has declared more than once that the 2016 election “is not entertainment; this is not a reality show.’’ Try telling that to a small platoon of game-makers seizing the opportunity of “The Apprentice’’ star Donald Trump’s candidacy to make a few bucks and score satiric propaganda points.
A minor cottage industry has sprung up — from video games via smartphone to sharply barbed parlor games — poking fun at the reality-TV-star-turned-presidential-hopeful. It puts Trump in a pantheon of US politicians mocked in game form, stretching at least as far back as the late 19th century, said Ron Puechner, president of the American Political Items Collectors.
Puechner’s own collection includes a dart-board-like game that lampoons Teddy Roosevelt’s refusal to shoot a bear during a hunt in 1902.
“It’s in America’s DNA to make fun of people in power,” said Adam Gottlieb , president of the Northern California political collectors chapter who’s been collecting since he was 10 years old.
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