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During his typically self-deprecating White House Correspondent’s Dinner speech on Saturday, President Barack Obama joked that his planned use of executive actions would put him on par with King Joffrey.
“This year I have promised to use more executive actions to get things done without Congress,” Obama said. “My critics call this the imperial presidency. The truth is, every day I show up at my office and do my job. We have a picture of this I think?”
The screen then flashed to a photo of Obama sitting in the Oval Office on the Iron Throne from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” A crossbow sits on the table in front of him in an apparent nod to the show’s much-loathed villain, King Joffrey. Read more