Marco Rubio thinks he'd be president if he'd only watched 'Game of Thrones' sooner

Do you ever find yourself wishing you'd started watching Game of Thrones a couple of years ago, so you could have become president of the United States?

Marco Rubio sure does.

Yes, the Florida senator who gives awkward hugs and implied Trump has a small penis is confident that if he'd only watched the popular HBO show sooner he would be the one kicking back in the Oval Office right now — not Donald Trump. Sad!

On Tuesday, Haley Byrd — a Congressional reporter at the Independent Journal Review — tweeted something Rubio said while speaking at the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute’s annual trade symposium: "If I’d have watched [Game of Thrones] two years ago, I would’ve been president," he noted. "It’s got a lot of good strategies."

The idea that Game of Thrones is a deep political allegory (from which, maybe, a certain kind of politician might learn) has been building for years now, but it seems Rubio is just now getting the message.

The show is on its seventh season, where the heck have you been? Just last month the senator advised Florida residents preparing for Hurricane Irma to "hunker down" and "catch up on Game of Throne — whatever it's called," so you know his binge began recently.

Wonder how Rubio's liking it so far. Do you think he's a Podrick Payne or Renly Barratheon, perhaps? How long would Rubio survive in Westeros?

According to Trump's Twitter archive, the president has yet to tweet about GOT, so it's unclear how he won this election.

Who knows, maybe Game of Thrones could have at least given Rubio the skills necessary to win his own state in the primary.