President Obama on the Iron Throne.
The White House tweeted this photo captioned “The Westeros Wing” while President Obama was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner trading jokes with reporters on May 3.
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It’s just as I’ve been saying — SF has gone mainstream with a vengeance when the President of the United States can made skiffy jokes. He can’t be gay, yet, or smoke a reefer at a press conference, but he can make pointed reference to media science fiction. What next? Robert Silverberg entertaining at the next presidential inauguration? Quoting Heinlein or Clarke in the next State of the Union address? SF is no longer a special interest — it is hip hop, NFL football and pizza.