Obama's 'Red Wedding' joke proves he deserved that early look at 'Game of Thrones'

Tired of Senate Republicans refusing to approve his Supreme Court nominee, President Barack Obama may be compelled to take extreme measures. Westeros-style.

At his final White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday, Obama, a Game of Thrones fan, noted there were quite a few Republican senators seated in the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom during his speech, making it the perfect time to officially fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat with his pick, Judge Merrick Garland.

"They're in the house, which reminds me, security, bar the doors. Judge Merrick Garland come on out. We're going to do this right here, right now," Obama said. "It's like the Red Wedding."

Obama (in)famously received an early look at Game of Thrones' sixth season, making the rest of us show lovers, and especially Jon Snow fans, feel like the peasants of King's Landing. 

As Game of Thrones watchers know, Jon Snow's half-brother, Robb Stark, his wife, mother and his army were slaughtered after being barricaded in a room following his uncle's nuptials, hence the devastating Red Wedding.

Of course, Obama didn't want to take it that far at an event jokingly known as the nerd prom. He was just referring to the "lock them in" part. Right?