We are now in the time where a new season famous TV show, Game of Thrones is now airing and this means that people will be posting spoilers and other opinions about the show on social networks.
Twitter is one of those networks you see people posting what they are watching on TV. Since it is Game of Thrones season, the network has been awash with tweets since the premiere of the new season yesterday.
There is a strong politics theme in Game of Thrones and this means it was inevitable people would start making inferences between the various characters in the show and real life politics.
One Matthew decided to start a tweetstorm where he compared Game of Thrones characters to political events that have happened in the United States, especially regarding Donald Trump and Russia. It ended up people comparing the various key characters that have starred in Game of Thrones all of the years and linking them to the current political status in the US, where you can see the subtle jabs at the idiosyncrasies of the political figures in the United States.
Started by comparing Jon Snow, Boltons and White Walkers, where the latter are the “Russians”
Jon Snow's problem is he doesn't have a message beyond opposing the Boltons and breathless conspiracy theories about White Walker collusion.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 16, 2017
Then he went along to describe Cersei *cough* White House *cough
Cersei's voters in the heartland think the whole incest narrative is fake news cooked up by out-of-touch coastal elites.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 16, 2017
Poor Renly Baratheon
Renly would have won if the Red Priests and superdelegates hadn't rigged the primary for Stannis.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 17, 2017
The comparison event went on to include Danaerys where she is alluded to have a Trump like message
She has an amorphous, "Make Westeros great again" thing going on, but no vision for what that means except, "I run it. Also, dragons."
— Zoe Samuel (@zoe_samuel) July 16, 2017
She has the best dragons. The biggest dragons. Tremendous dragons
She has the best dragons. The biggest dragons. Tremendous dragons. They're in very good shape. Beautiful. Jon Snow has no dragons.
— Zoe Samuel (@zoe_samuel) July 16, 2017
Very Trump like
"I mean, would it be so bad if we had good relations with the White Walkers?"
— Michael Dawson (@michaeljdawson) July 16, 2017
I demand to see Jon Snow’s certificate
People are saying Jon's not a real Stark. I demand to see birth certificate!
— Maurece Roddy (@maurece_roddy) July 16, 2017
A huge wall. The best wall. Tremendous wall
We're gonna build a great wall on our Northern border. Bravos is going to pay for it.
— TL (@TeeLeck) July 17, 2017
But Cersei would say they are fake ravens
To which Cersei Lannister continues to say that these are #FakeRavens
— Scott Gillespie (@ScottG305) July 17, 2017