--- title: Hillary Clinton Announcement same day as Game of Thrones description: Skeptics joke that Hillary Clinton's presidential announcement comes the same night as Season 5 of Game of Thrones canonical: https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-10T17:39:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:38.560Z og:title: Hillary Clinton Gets in on Iron Throne Action With 2016 Announcement og:description: Clinton is coming og:url: https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98d33424e92e1549/6987ea9955a859d268a89845/hillary-darnyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1870 og:image:height: 1052 og:image:alt: hillary-darnyrus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Gets in on Iron Throne Action With 2016 Announcement twitter:description: Clinton is coming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98d33424e92e1549/6987ea9955a859d268a89845/hillary-darnyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Gets in on Iron Throne Action With 2016 Announcement > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 10, 2015 5:39 PM UTC  Marla Aufmuth—Getty Images; HBO  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 10, 2015 5:39 PM UTC Hillary Clinton will [reportedly announce her campaign for President of the United States Sunday](http://time.com/3817067/hillary-clinton-announce-presidential-bid-sunday/), which, suspiciously, is the same time _Game of Thrones_ and _Veep—_two very different shows about power brokering—return to HBO. Fans of the Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy _Veep_ will recall that Vice President Selena Meyers was sworn in as Commander-in-Chief last season. But considering how often Selena’s people bungle delicate situations, perhaps Hillary would prefer the _Game of Thrones_ comparison. Is House Clinton trying to associate itself with the ruthless fantasy characters in their own bid for the American throne? People on Twitter seem to think so, joking that the timing is, well, pretty perfect. > [](https://twitter.com/chucktodd/status/586564046155046913) > [](https://twitter.com/JaredRizzi/status/586519868507344896) > [](https://twitter.com/J9480/status/586493308664467456) > [](https://twitter.com/coketweet/status/586401403976818688) > [](https://twitter.com/anylaurie16/status/561068755464486913) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Gets in on Iron Throne Action With 2016 Announcement","datePublished":"2015-04-10T17:39:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:38.560Z","description":"Clinton is coming","url":"https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98d33424e92e1549/6987ea9955a859d268a89845/hillary-darnyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98d33424e92e1549/6987ea9955a859d268a89845/hillary-darnyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hillary-darnyrus","caption":"","creditText":"Marla Aufmuth—Getty Images; HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3817617/hillary-clinton-announcement-game-of-thrones/","name":"Hillary Clinton Gets in on Iron Throne Action With 2016 Announcement"}}]}] ```