The man behind the now-viral “Winter is Trumping” video boasted this week that he’s done something few would ever think possible — brought both haters and backers of The Donald together.
“I’ve united them in their hate for each other,” Australian Huw Parkinson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where he works as a video editor. “They are still shouting each other, they are just arguing over who’s right as to the angle of the video.”
Parkinson, 33, said he spent a few weeks working on the nearly three-minute long clip, which combines Donald Trump’s one-offs from the campaign trail with scenes from HBO’s hit fantasy series, “Game of Thrones.”
“The original idea was to play with all the US primary candidates and ‘Game of Thrones’ seemed to be very fitting as you have all these characters fighting each other and strategizing to take advantage and win the titular game of thrones in whatever way they could,” Parkinson told MyNewsLA.com.
But he quickly found that idea to be overwhelming, and instead decided to just feature the Republican frontrunner.
“I found more moments to connect him with the show than anyone else,” Parkinson said.
Trump’s most recent spat with Pope Francis, where the pontiff said it is not Christian to build a wall to stop immigrants from coming into the US, was “the little cherry on top” to his video.
Parkinson said it was the perfect tie-in to the Wall in “Game of Thrones,” a massive wall of ice and stone manned by the Night’s Watch, a group of men who protect civilization from the barbaric creatures that live to the north of the divider.
“Winter is Trumping” has been his most successful video– racking up more than 2.5 million YouTube views since it was posted Saturday. But it’s not his first time combining pop culture and politics in snarky clips.
In the two years, Parkinson has created more than a dozen videos, mashing up scenes from shows including “Seinfeld,” Arrested Development” and “True Detective,” with political issues.
A clip published in November 2014 called “Seinfeld in Parliament,” he superimposed the head’s and voices from the sitcom on Australian politicians in what he calls “a parliament about nothing.”
Another video has England’s Prime Minister doing the “Spidey Street” — walking around the streets of New York like Marvel superhero Spiderman — after he was re-elected last May.
Parkinson said he doesn’t have any specific plans for his next video.
“It’s so hard to guess what’s coming up,” he told MyNewsLA.com. “You never know who is going to say what ridiculous thing in front of the camera.”