Al Gore Likens Trump's Presidency To 'Game Of Thrones' 'Red Wedding' Episode

Former Vice President Al Gore brought up a comparison between President Donald Trump's White House and HBO's hit show "Game of Thrones" while speaking about the administration, climate change and the president's other policies, in an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday night.

"Last week somebody said it was like the 'Red Wedding' in 'Game of Thrones'," Gore said, referring to a scene in one of the episode's in the third season of the famous show, where a broken alliance leads to a massacre at a wedding. "It was really wild," he said.

"I think in the process, the president has been isolating himself from the rest of the country," he told Hayes when asked if he felt the White House was functioning normally under Trump. Gore also pointed out the clear divisions within the GOP after the controversial resignations and staffing changes in the recent past.

"You see Republicans in the House and Senate now moving to separate themselves in increasing numbers from the dysfunction and distractions, constant distractions in the White House," he said.

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Hayes then asked "Do you watch that like everybody else does and just say, like, 'what the heck is going on?'"

Gore responded by saying: "You talking about Game of Thrones or the White House?"

"Both, but the White House in this case," said the MSNBC host.

"It's deeply troubling," Gore said. "And for me the most troubling part of it is that it serves as a set of constant distractions from the problems we should be addressing. Nothing's getting done."

Gore's comments came after a week of resignations and controversy in the White House. Anthony Scaramucci, who was appointed as President Trump's communications director, resigned just 10 days after he assumed his duty. His appointment had also prompted former Press Secretary Sean Spicer to resign and was later followed by the resignation of Reince Priebus as chief of staff.

Since January, many in the Trump's administration have either resigned or were fired, including Scaramucci, Priebus, Spicer, Michael Dubke, James Comey, Michael Flynn, Sally Yates and Preet Bharara. As a comparison, Gore referred to the third season of the hit HBO series, where the episode titled "Red Wedding" killed off many main characters in a scene where a wedding celebration turned into a mass slaying.

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Gore has consistently been critical of the president and his policies. In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Gore criticized Trump's decision in June to pull out of the Paris climate accord. He said, "I have no illusions about the possibility of changing Donald Trump's mind, I think he has made it abundantly clear that he's throwing his lot in with the climate deniers."

Gore mentioned he had spoken to the president a number of times before he decided to pull out of the climate agreement, but it did not make a difference to the president's decision. Gore said he has been planning to focus on "building a bipartisan consensus" in order to address the climate crisis.

Gore has been trying to spread awareness through this documentaries "An Inconvenient Truth" and "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" which were released this year. He said the climate crisis is not some issue that just impacts future generations: "It's happening to us now. This movie is designed to drive those points home, but also to make people aware that in the last decade, the solutions to the climate crisis have become available to us."