Just a day after a trio of arcade games satirizing the Trump administration’s war in Iran were erected at the D.C. War Memorial, members of the National Guard were spotted giving the fully-functional games a whirl.

Some 2,500 members of the National Guard were sent into Washington, D.C., by President Donald Trump last year as part of his purported crime crackdown in the nation’s capital. But for nearly eight months, the Guard has done little else other than beautify parks, shovel snow in the winter and stroll the National Mall alongside tourists when the weather is agreeable. Notably, crime was already declining in D.C. when Trump sent the troops.

The deployment in D.C. has no set end date. The taxpayer cost to keep the troops in town is more than $1 million a day, according to The Associated Press.

“We think it’s wonderful to see people serving the country enjoying the game,” Secret Handshake, the group behind the display of arcade games, said in a statement to HuffPost. “When we made this, we made sure that the comedy and the critique is wholly toward the administration, not the military and certainly not the people serving in it.”

The installation, according to the group, took three weeks to make and will only be at the D.C. War Memorial for a couple more days.

The Pentagon has said the cost of the U.S. war in Iran has skyrocketed to $29 billion, and that figure is expected to keep climbing as the administration has failed to find an exit ramp. Trump said Monday that a ceasefire in Iran was on “massive life support.”

U.S. consumer prices have gone up 3.8% due to the war, according to the Labor Department, and energy prices have risen significantly as well. Brent crude oil has been hovering between $104 to $107 a barrel since Friday.

The presence of the National Guard in D.C. has been rife with controversy, with residents generally against the presence of federally deployed troops — some of them armed — in a largely peaceful city. The district sued to stop Trump’s deployment of the Guard last fall, calling it an “involuntary military occupation.” A federal judge found that the deployment violated the Constitution, but on appeal, the administration scored a victory and troops were allowed to stay.

This was in part thanks to Washington, D.C.’s lack of statehood.

In the ruling, appellate judges noted that “because the District of Columbia is a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity like the fifty States, the Defendants appear on this early record likely to prevail on the merits of their argument that the President possesses a unique power within the District—the seat of the federal government—to mobilize the Guard.”

Neither the White House nor the National Guard immediately returned HuffPost’s request for comment on Tuesday.

Secret Handshake has created a number of installations satirizing the president and his relationship to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In March, the group put up a 12-foot statue of Trump and Epstein, inspired by the film “Titanic,” which depicted the men embracing à la the fictional romantic duo Jack and Rose. Secret Handshake also installed a massive rendering of Trump’s alleged birthday card to Epstein in January on what would have been Epstein’s 73rd birthday. Plus, the group was responsible for a statue last September showing the president and Epstein holding hands as they appeared to prance together in celebration of Friendship Month.

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