Recently, "American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy announced that the seventh season of the show would focus on the 2016 election. Instantly, this news sent fans into a frenzy, as to who would play Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Murphy cleared up the story line, and explained that the theme, as always, is just allegory. He said: ?I think people literally think Sarah Paulson is playing Hillary Clinton, and I wanted to clarify that that is not true.