Mexico doesn’t have a zombie ice dragon, so stop trying to own Trump over his ‘Game of Thrones’ memes

As President Trump continues to tweet out memes inspired by “Game of Thrones” to push his legislative agenda, a new talking point among the Left has emerged.

I hate to break it to them, but the wall in “Game of Thrones” is actually wildly effective. While it’s not a totally accurate parallel to Trump’s proposal, the notion it’s not immensely successful in the “Game of Throne” universe is utter garbage.

(Spoilers ahead.)

For those of you not familiar, “Game of Thrones” is based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, which has since been outpaced by the television series. The fantasy story, derived from some historical events such as the War of Roses, features two central conflicts: the civil war for the Iron Throne of the nation of Westeros, and a greater and more latent war between all of humanity and a zombie-like species called the White Walkers.

Humans in the franchise are protected by the wall, a 300-mile-long and 700-foot-tall physical barrier protecting the northern border of Westeros from an area colloquially called Beyond the Wall, where human “Wildlings” (think Scottish eskimos) and the White Walkers live.

George R.R. Martin, the creator and author of the book series, claims to have based Westeros’ wall on Hadrian’s Wall of Roman Britannia. Hadrian’s Wall never fell; it was simply abandoned after the emperor’s death. By contrast, as many a snide commentator has pointed out, the Westerosi wall does fall in the latest season finale of the television series. It also falls because, for the first time in known human history within the show, a zombie ice dragon is created.

Following its construction at the end of “the Long Night,” the wall successfully defended humans from the White Walkers for 8,000 years. It’s only when one of the claimants to the Iron Throne, Daenerys Targaryen, who has a number of magical abilities including immunity from fire and the ability to (essentially) birth dragons, brings one of her dragons north of the wall. During a battle between humans and the White Walkers, Targaryen’s dragon is shot down and killed by the king of the White Walkers, who later reanimates it into a White Walker dragon. Under the control of the king, the newly created zombie dragon becomes the first person, animal, or entity to destroy the wall in eight millennia.

Does Mexico have a zombie ice dragon? Or at the very least, do coyotes hauling illegal immigrants in the back of pick-up trucks have the capability to shoot an ice cannon at our southern border? I doubt it.

Trump’s use of memes may reflect a degradation of our politics, but the Left’s immediate jump to answer the call with fictional fact-checking proves an even scarier and more salient point: Trump chooses the news cycle, and we’re all just living in it.