Kellyanne Conway Tries to Explain Trump's 'Game of Thrones' Poster
by EG
Donald Trump has been asked to stop using copyrighted imagery from Game of Thrones in his political propaganda, but he keeps using it, even now that the imagery makes even less sense than it did before. That caused some confusion on the part of spokesperson Kellyanne Conway this week. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
President Donald Trump’s official translator Kellyanne Conway showed up on Fox & Friends the morning after he held his first cabinet meeting of 2019 seated behind a large poster of his earlier Game of Thrones knockoff tweet of November, on which was splashed the message “Sanctions Are Coming” and the date November 5. In the poster, the date had been changed to November 4.
Walls work, Trump says in front of a poster memeing "Game Of Thrones", where a wall absolutely did not work https://t.co/oTH2CNseBV pic.twitter.com/EchljztLH4
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) January 2, 2019
“What was with the poster yesterday on the table?” Brian Kilmeade asked Conway.
“That’s the President saying sanctions are coming November 4th,” Conway answered from the White House lawn, on January 3. Making a sharp right-hand turn, she added, “I think the President speaking for 95 minutes and holding forth on any number of issues shows his transparency, and shows he’s always willing to have the press in the room.”
Not sure what's crazier: That Trump is using a stupid Game of Thrones reference to threaten sanctions, or that he's obviously had that poster since at LEAST October (photo via AP) pic.twitter.com/NZaRoHw0NQ
— Josh K. Elliott (@joshkelliott) January 2, 2019
“And that’s also why he wants people like Mitt Romney to be a team player, not be out there just giving interviews and writing op-eds, but come with solutions, come to Washington with solutions,” she added. “You know, three months from now, Mitt Romney will have voted with the President probably 95% of the time.”
Conway then pitched the Trump Border Wall a while, but eventually had to stop for breath.
“But the poster just happened to be there? Or was it a message?,” Brian Kilmeade jumped in, taking advantage of her momentary pause. “Are sanctions coming November 4th what are they?,” he asked, two months after that date.
“Well I’ll let it speak for itself,” Conway dodged. “The President maybe will be asked about that later on.”
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