'Game of Thrones' Twitter shreds Donald Trump's boneheaded wall tweet
Donald Trump's obsession with walls steered him down a foolish path on Saturday night.
As the President of the United States continues to debate the merits of a real life wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, he's turned to the unlikeliest pop culture source for help: Game of Thrones. Anyone who keeps up with the hit HBO series knows very well that walls don't work.
Well, here's what Trump tweeted about his hoped-for wall, the one that prompted him to go forward with a partial government shutdown that left hundreds of thousands of federal employees out of work and unpaid over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
(A wall that, we learned yesterday, was originally conceived as a mnemonic device to help then-candidate Trump remember to hang on to immigration as a central issue of his presidential bid.)
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
A lot of those people who keep up with Game of Thrones are on Twitter, as it happens. So when Trump tweeted the above image on Saturday for the second time (it debuted on his Instagram on Thursday), those fans were ready to take him to school.
The wall specifically didn’t work in that show, idiot https://t.co/9BWrbC8hRV
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) January 6, 2019
Trump using the Game of Thrones font for all his memes is truly fitting.
It's the story of a wall that doesn't work, and the only group that's lost more characters than Game of Thrones is the Trump Administration.— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 6, 2019
Trump posted a Game of Thrones meme 'The Wall is Coming'.... last season ended this way: pic.twitter.com/5a3aaWXhVN
— Miles (@m3hnash) January 3, 2019
TRUMP: People love my Game of Thrones posters. What’s this show about anyway?
AIDE: A rich incestuous family screwing up the world with their power-plays and deception. Oh and there’s a Wall.— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) January 6, 2019
Now, some have pointed out that, yes, the Game of Thrones wall worked for 8,000 years before it failed. And even then, the wall only fell because an undead dragon went on an angry rampage. That's not likely to happen with any wall, real or imagined, on the planet Earth.
But so what? A pop culture reference doesn't have to draw a direct parallel to be meaningful. Game of Thrones, the show, is literally a seven-season build-up to an entire nation collectively saying "oh shit!" after a protective border wall they'd put all their faith in came crumbling down.
Hmmmmmm.
Of course, there's a more insidious layer to the Trump administration's increasingly frequent draws from the ol' Game of Thrones well. It's all fun and games until the racist fools people into thinking migrants aren't so far removed from evil undead ice zombies.
Trump posted a new Game of Thrones-themed meme 5 hours ago, shortly after his "presser" with leaders of the Border Patrol union.
Twitter is having fun noting that the wall comes down in Season 7 of the show, but there's a more important way you should think about this... /1 pic.twitter.com/qIinvkwaMp— Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) January 4, 2019
In describing why he left DHS over Trump's family separation policy, @scottshuchart perfectly explains why it's disturbing that the Border Patrol identifies with "a band of warrior monks" sworn "to protect a magical kingdom from an army of ice zombies." https://t.co/wcD9nVMVA9 /3
— Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) January 4, 2019
So I'm happy to chuckle for a second about him using a meme about the wall when we know the wall came down in the show.
But mostly I'm thinking about how this further reveals the insidious influence that dehumanizing rhetoric and ideas have on inhumane policies and practices. /5— Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) January 4, 2019
This is a great addition by @ThePlumLineGS /7 https://t.co/A1sQsNtIUi
— Tom Jawetz (@TomJawetz) January 4, 2019
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