--- ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Team Calls Out President Trump: 'Joffrey Is Now the King in America' by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly May 24, 2017 5:21 PM UTC  Actor Kit Harington arrives at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Actor Kit Harington arrives at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.Gregg DeGuire—WireImage/Getty Images by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly May 24, 2017 5:21 PM UTC The _Game of Thrones_ team is sounding off on President Donald Trump. Author George R.R. Martin and star Kit Harington slam the Commander-in-Chief in the latest issue of _Esquire_, which has [a cover story](http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a55226/kit-harington-after-game-of-thrones/) on the Jon Snow actor. “I think Joffrey is now the king in America,” Martin said (referring to _Thrones_‘ infamously sadistic and immature former ruler). “And he’s grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was 13 in the books.” While Harington said: “I believe in experts … Mr. Donald Trump — I wouldn’t call him ‘President,’ I’ll call him ‘Mister.’ I think this man at the head of your country is a con artist.” Yet Harington wasn’t too impressed by famous liberal activist and fellow actor Sean Penn either, noting he found it annoying when the star decided to get involved in the Falklands: “I was like, ‘It has nothing to do with you, Sean Penn. F— off.’” Entertainment Weekly was actually on the set of _Game of Thrones_ when Trump was elected last November. The morning after, the show’s cast and crew gave sympathetic hugs to Hillary Clinton-supporting Americans. Between takes, one writer for the show opined that the popular Joffrey comparison isn’t really correct: “People keep writing that his election is ‘just like _Game of Thrones_.’ F— you. Even Joffrey spoke in articulate sentences. I prefer Westeros, where politics makes sense.” The thing is, pundits compare regional politics to _Game of Thrones_ all around the world — not just in America. Here’s one amazing video of how a news network in South Korea covered its presidential election (if only CNN were more like this!). For ongoing _Game of Thrones_ coverage, follow @[jameshibberd](https://twitter.com/JamesHibberd) for the latest (non-fake and spoiler free); subscribe to our [GoT newsletter](https://pages.email.ew.com/game-of-thrones) for breaking news alerts, and check out [our GoT podcast](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ews-game-of-thrones-weekly/id1099326209?mt=2). _Game of Thrones_ season 7 premieres July 16 on HBO. _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/24/game-of-thrones-trump/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Game of Thrones Cast on President Trump in 2017 Interview ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4792491/game-of-thrones-kit-harrington-on-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4792491/game-of-thrones-kit-harrington-on-trump/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Team Calls Out President Trump: 'Joffrey Is Now the King in America'","datePublished":"2017-05-24T17:21:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:55.131Z","description":"George R.R. 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