HBO slams Trump's Game of Thrones tweet about the Mueller report
HBO is once again asking the president to stop trying to piggyback off the success of Game of Thrones.
The network put out a statement condemning Donald Trump’s tweet that plays off GoT to dismiss Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“Though we can understand the enthusiasm for Game of Thrones now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes,” HBO said.
On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2019
The tweet uses a font used by GoT along with “Game” to play off the show’s branding.
Last November, the president did another Thrones-inspired tweet to announce “Sanctions Are Coming” to Iran.
To which HBO responded: “We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes.”
Previously, A Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin said Trump reminds him of the tale’s immature and sadistic teen villain Joffrey Baratheon. “I think Joffrey is now the king in America,” Martin said in 2017. “And he’s grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was 13 in the books.”
While star Kit Harington (Jon Snow) has slammed Trump by saying: “I believe in experts … Mr. Donald Trump — I wouldn’t call him ‘President,’ I’ll call him ‘Mister.’ I think this man at the head of your country is a con artist.”
EW was on the GoT set on Election Day in 2016, and one of the show’s writers at the time objected to the popular Joffrey comparison. “People keep writing that his election is ‘just like Game of Thrones.’ F— you. Even Joffrey spoke in articulate sentences. I prefer Westeros, where politics makes sense.”
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