On January 3rd, US President Donald Trump posted a “teaser” of the US border wall with Mexico on his Instagram account.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMBeLbFLxd/?utm_source=ig_embed
“The Wall is Coming,” another reference to the “Winter is Coming” tagline, used in HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones.
Users on Twitter and fans of the show, however, discovered one discrepancy with the statement. The 7th season of the show, which aired in 2017 ended with the Great Wall of Westeros being destroyed.
https://twitter.com/haven1406/status/1080955386218401792
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/1080964660902416385
https://twitter.com/_FranckPG/status/1080948826905763840
Other people called in factual mistakes, with the border “wall” not really being a wall, but a “fence.”
https://twitter.com/7295murphy/status/1080951646950174720
Others called for Donald Trump to actually watch the show and listen to one of its main characters – The King of the North Jon Snow:
https://twitter.com/janeite1900/status/1080947500901679105
The posting of the meme followed Trump printing out a poster of his previous GoT meme and going into a cabinet meeting on January 2nd with it, while he spoke in front of journalists.
The first meme read “Sanctions are coming” and was an attack on Iran, posted on November 2nd. On November 5th, the US reimposed sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports and the country’s energy sector.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1058388700617498625
The National Iranian American Council, which has condemned Trump’s plan to scuttle an Obama-era nuclear deal and reimpose all sanctions, sees the president as less of a Stark than a White Walker — “fear-mongering, war-mongering, and championing division at every opportunity.”
https://twitter.com/NIACouncil/status/1058414841768095744
On November 3rd, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, commander in Iran’s elite Al Quds Force and veteran of at least one flame war with Trump, released his own knockoff “Game of Thrones” meme.
https://twitter.com/Tasnimnews_EN/status/1058701751430365184
In a glaring example of what foreign diplomacy has become in 2018, Soleimani wrote on Instagram, as a comment to his meme,
“Come! We are waiting. I can stop you. Quds Force can stop you. You start this war, but we will finish it.”
The meme that appeared to get the most friction was one posted by a Twitter user by the name of @RinaldoZoontjes:
https://twitter.com/RinaldoZoontjes/status/1058746002562318338
Threatening that former FBI director, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is coming for the POTUS.
On its part, HBO wasn’t happy with how its IP was used:
https://twitter.com/HBO/status/1058424663972478976
The network, in a statement to CNBC also said the following: “We were not aware of this messaging and would prefer our trademark not be misappropriated for political purposes.” However, network spokesman Jeff Cusson said that there would no further steps in terms of legal action.
Politics and diplomacy in USA become circus to be consume by sheeples. They are using this tactics because most of people are narrow headed, in results, they are a laughing stocks to the world and sane persons
“I got burned once” by Firebombs in Dresden
“I got burned once” by Atombombs in Japan
“I got burned once” by Napam in Vietnam
“I got burned once” by Mk 77 in Afghanstan
“I got burned once” by white phosphorus Iraq
WE HAVE ALL BEEN BURNT ONCE TOO
OFTEN BY YANKI TERROR
I see that Trump has done exactly what he set out to do. He is a master at controlling the narrative. Thousands of MSM media outlets all over the world cut him down day and night without mercy and all he does to defeat them is send out a meme. POOF! Like magic he has the entire world focused on him and his wall again.
Mission accomplished.