![]() But I am like Don Quixote chasing windmills, and so here I go, running after the futile cause of explaining why “The Wall Is Coming” is a meme that makes no dang sense for Republicans or Democrats.įrom Trump’s perspective, I have to believe the phrase “The Wall Is Coming” is meant in the most literal possible way - “There is going to be a wall, and therefore The Wall Is Coming” - since the image also features the latest imagined incarnation of Trump’s border wall, basically an enormous comb sticking out of the ground. Of course, dignifying any of this with more attention is silly. ![]() Who’d ever guess that stitching together a 21st-century immigration policy out of memes from a popular fantasy series is … bad? On the surface, it looks like a prime example of Trump owning himself, but you don’t have to look much further to see that a GOT metaphor is just as ridiculous from the liberal position. The response to Trump’s “Wall Is Coming” meme went as you’d expect, too, with many people retorting that the Game of Thrones comparison is absurd, because, on the show, the Wall is a failure. It’s certainly not new for the Trump administation, which posted an Instagram image of himself above the phrase “The Wall Is Coming” written in a Game of Thrones-esque font on Thursday: Donald Trump tweeted a similar meme in November (“ Sanctions Are Coming”), and he has a history of circulating memes from the darkest corners of internet troll caves. ![]() Appropriating stories from fiction to make a political point is nothing new. ![]()
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