Donald Trump's 'Patriot Games' Announcement Is Quickly Compared to 'The Hunger Games'

People are pointing out the eerie similarities between President Donald Trump‘s “Patriot Games” and The Hunger Games franchise.

The President announced several festivities to honor the country’s 250th anniversary next year, and one of them is something called the Patriot Games.

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“In the fall, we will host the first-ever Patriot Games: an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes. One young man and one young woman from each state and territory,” he detailed in a YouTube video.

He didn’t provide any additional information on the event, but did say there would be “no men playing in women’s sports. You’re not gonna see that. You’ll see everything but that,” referring to his anti-transgender initiatives.

The official Democrat account on X/Twitter immediately pointed out the eerie parallels between the Patriot Games and The Hunger Games book series by Suzanne Collins. They quoted the news with a clip from the first film adaptation featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.

“And so it was decreed that, each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up, in tribute, one young man and woman to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice,” read the tweet, quoting the Francis Lawrence-directed film.

Even New York Magazine asked, “President Snow, is that you?” in a post, referring to the main Hunger Games antagonist.

Funnily enough, a new Hunger Games film, Sunrise on the Reaping, will be released in November 2026.