Game of Thrones creator likens Trump to arch-villain Joffrey and says President is 'petulant and irrational'
George R.R. Martin said character Joffrey Baratheon 'is now king in America'
Speaking about Trump, he called the President 'petulant and irrational'
Kit Harrington, who plays Jon Snow, also branded Trump a 'con artist'
One was the hated boy-King of Westeros, while the other is the 45th President of the United States.
But according to Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, Joffrey Baratheon and Donald Trump are one-and-the-same.
'I think Joffrey is now the king in America,' the multi-millionaire author said during an interview with Esquire magazine. 'And he's grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was thirteen in the books', Martin added.
Spoiled, cruel, and cowardly - Joffrey became the pinnacle of hatred for fans of the show in its early seasons, despite an array of unsavory characters to chose from.
He was poisoned to death at the start of the fourth season during his own wedding, enjoying a prolonged and painful end.
While Joffrey met his end in 2014, long before Trump launched his bid for the presidency, fans of the show and critics of the President were quick to link the two.
Their prominent blonde hair, an ancestral trait of the Lannister family to which Joffrey belongs, if often mentioned, as is their access to inherited wealth.
However, this marks the first time that anyone involved in producing the show has been drawn on the link between the pair.
In the same interview Kit Harrington, the actor behind Jon Snow, also couldn't resist taking a dig a Trump.
He told the magazine: '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.'
Game of Thrones returns to HBO on July 16 for its seventh and penultimate season, which will run for a shorter-than-usual seven episodes.
The concluding season is expected to air some time in 2018, and its creators have previously said it will contain only six episodes.