Politics

Trump Memes ‘Game Of Thrones’ While Insisting “Walls Work”, Has Clearly Never Seen The Show

Spoilers: it doesn't.

by Tom Clift  3 January 2019
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Donald Trump has brought back his infamous Game of Thrones meme while demanding Democrats fund his border wall because, quote: “walls work”. Only, as anyone who is up to date with the series knows, that’s not always the case

Trump was brutally roasted by the Game of Thrones cast back in November after he tweeted a picture of himself along with the words “Sanctions Are Coming” to announce he was imposing sanctions on Iran. He was also mocked by fans of the show, who pointed out that the phrase “winter is coming” is used in the series to warn of something terrible on the horizon.

Despite the ridicule, however, Trump decided to resurrect the meme on Wednesday, placing a poster-sized printout of the Thrones-inspired image on the table in front of him during his first cabinet meeting of the year.

Putting aside the fact that this is just a bizarre thing to do in general, somebody in Trump’s team probably needs to catch up with what’s been happening in Westeros recently. Because if you’re trying to convince people that walls do in fact work, you probably shouldn’t throw to a show in which a wall very famously doesn’t.

Luckily for the President, there were plenty of people on the internet who very helpfully pointed this out to him.