Game of Thrones: Hilary Clinton compares herself to Cersei in new memoir What Happened
'They shouted, ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones'
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Your support makes all the difference.While detailing last year’s Presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s upcoming book What Happened makes some notable pop-culture references.
One concerns Game of Thrones, the Democrat likening the treatment she received from Donald Trump supporters to how King’s Landing treated Cersei.
“Crowds at Trump rallies called for my imprisonment more times than I can count,” she writes, according to Newsweek. “They shouted, ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones chanting ‘Shame! Shame!’ while Cersei Lannister walked back to the Red Keep.”
Clinton is referring to the season five finale in which Cersei, having confessed adultery, is forced by the Faith Militant to walk around King’s Landing naked while being followed by Septa Unella ringing a bell, shouting ‘Shame! Shame!’.
Cersei, as Game of Thrones fans know, has become the series true villain. During the campaign, many people compared the candidate favourably with Daenerys Targaryen.
Clinton adds how images of Trump holding her severed head were printed on mugs, supporters of the former Apprentice host vilifying her.
Was all this because I was a woman?” Clinton asks. “No. But I believe it was motivation for some of those chanters and some of that bile.”
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