Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. Season 2, Episode 7 - Jaime Lannister to Catelyn Stark: “So many vows. And who can forget Joffrey’s baseless tough talk about challenging and defeating Stannis Baratheon? Does that remind you of anyone who has never been in a physical alteration that wasn’t scripted? “He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way.” Our King President said that.Ģ.

Joffrey surely considered himself a very stable genius, too. It feels right on the money - someone who’s so underconfident that they have to project overconfidence. Joking aside, I think the comparison is most apt in this quote, when Joffrey has to say about himself what shouldn’t need to be said. Martin himself has said that Trump is basically Joffrey if he lived to old age, calling him, “just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was 13 in the books.” I am not the first person, nor will I be the last, to compare President Trump to King Joffrey. Tywin Lannister: “Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.” Joffrey Baratheon: “ I am the KING! I will punish you!” In celebration of the show’s seven seasons, seven hells, seven blessings, seven new gods, and seven kingdoms, here are seven more Game of Thrones quotes connected to modern politics. I’m following Monday’s “ Presidential Politics Meets Game of Thrones” post with a sequel.

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