re: #107 Pawn of the Oppressor

I hope he keeps the stories separate and doesn’t let the TV show spoil the book too much.

I don’t know how Trump and Palin would fit in Westeros. Cruz is a good fit - some kind of King’s Landing sleazeball, easy peasy. But the world of ASOIAF is so damned serious and brutal, there’s just not that kind of decadence, ignorance, and stupidity around for these types to feed off of, is there? Is there a society in Martin’s world where these two could exist?

Trump would be like, Littlefinger’s abusive drunk dad or something… I don’t know, I just don’t see them fitting.

Palin would be something like an up jumped knight that is granted land and title for favors done. It doesn’t quite work because in ASOIAF a woman can’t be a knight, but I see her as something like that. Or maybe a better comp: a younger daughter of a northern house with no political cunning who marries a southern lord only to see the lord die when their child is still an infant, thus entitling her to a long regency?

Trump I could totally see as being a lord like Tytos Lannister (Tywin’s father). Brash, egotistical, no self awareness, and wanting to show off his greatness - which he only has due to his name.

It seems to me that most of the lords of Westeros are fools, usually due to pride or ignorance.