Americans Vote 'Game of Thrones' Tyrion for President Over Clinton, Trump

Long live the king, er, president.

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Americans are really unhappy about this year's presidential candidates huh? Over the summer last year—when this exhausting election cycle began—a Washington Post poll concluded even generally hated villains Darth Vader and Voldemort were polling better than all of the 2016 presidential republican candidates. Almost a year later and Americans are feeling somewhat the same a SurveyMonkey poll shows. According to the poll, Americans want Game of Thrones' always quotable Tyrion Lannister as president instead of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

Tyrion Lannister may not be the one true king (sadly) but he is the one true president Entertainment Weeklyreports citing the survey. EWreports the survey asked 2,045 respondents to choose a president from the eight candidates listed including all of the presidential candidates currently still in the running, in addition to Tyrion Lannister, Cersei Lannister, and Daenerys Targaryen.

Voters chose Tyrion for the Iron Throne White House with 24 percent over Clinton's 20 percent and Trump's seven percent. Even in this poll Ted Cruz and John Kasich trailed Trump. There was one candidate who did tie Tyrion, Bernie Sanders.

​A breakdown of the voters and their respective parties shows Tyrion would actually be the candidate to bring the two major parties together.

You have to admit Tyrion is more than qualified. He has experience having been the Master of Coin and Hand of the King. Finances wouldn't be a problem because he abides by "A Lannister always pays his debts" even though, as viewers know, his family does not considering the Lannisters are in a whole lot of debt with the Iron Bank. Tyrion's kind but also level-headed.

Yeah. He's got our vote.

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