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Stephen King Oversteps Boundaries In His Latest Donald Trump Diss, Angers Cthulhu Himself

By Dustin Kemp
Published on: 20:39 PST, Sep 13, 2016

The Huffington Post reports that Stephen King recently made enemies with the last creatures you ever want to offend: Cthulhu, the Lord of Darkness, and Donald J. Trump.

Stephen King fans are probably aware the much-celebrated author has been taking a break from his writing career as of late to focus on Twitter-heckling politicians. Such cases include King’s recent labeling of Maine governor Paul LePage as “a bigot, a homophobe, and a racist,” an incident reported by The Inquisitr, and more notably – not to mention much more frequently – Stephen King’s intense tirades against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

It was not a great shock when Stephen King recently tweeted out a discovery he has made that angered a lot of people. To be more specific, Stephen let the world know he has uncovered Trump’s secret identity – Cthulhu.

“Breaking News,” reads Stephen King’s post. “Reliable sources reveal that Donald Trump is actually Cthulhu. The absurd hairdo isn’t absurd at all. It hides the tentacles.”

For all those who are wondering, Cthulhu is a colossal half-creature, half-god envisioned by H.P. Lovecraft in the 1920s who has since become a widely known embodiment of all evil in the universe. The idea of Cthulhu has risen to the mainstream in recent years with the rise of internet culture and his appearance in the iconic South Park episode “Mysterion Rises.”

Not too surprisingly, King was wrong. His fact-checking skills apparently don’t quite equal his knack as a storyteller and with his false identification, he angered the prince of darkness, who readily pointed out that there is no way Donald Trump is even close to as terribly great as he himself is.

“Trump could barely hope to be 1/63 as great as I am if he weren’t such a buffoon,” retorted the account that one can only presume is run by Cthulhu’s 2016 campaign managers.

Readers of Stephen King’s work will recognize that the clever response is jam-packed with King titles, including Maximum Overdrive (1986), Needful Things(1991), Misery(1987), Desperation(1996), Joyland(2013), Firestarter(1980), End of Watch(2016), and Dead Zone(1979). It looks like Cthulhu’s campaigners are Stephen King fans.

If you haven’t picked up on it yet, Stephen King’s crack about Trump actually being Cthulhu was only a joke meant to voice his great distaste for the businessman and reality TV star-turned-politician. As the obviously unofficial “Cthulhu for America” presidential campaign-themed account suggests, though, the humorous idea of Cthulhu as a viable presidential candidate is not something Stephen King invented.

Many Americans, possibly King included, have expressed that they dislike both of the front-running presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. That has driven some of them to joke that they would rather vote for the purely abhorrent Cthulhu than choose between what they see as the lesser of two evils.

Some industrious haters have even gone so far as to create a mock campaign page for Cthulhu and design a slew of campaign posters and videos for said page.

Only the most eagle-eyed King followers, though, will recognize Stephen King’s close personal connection with this particular issue. You see, King himself is a huge fan of Lovecraft’s writing, a fact made abundantly clear in responses like that of Writedge to his recent novel, Redemption, and his own perception of horror is undoubtedly inspired by hulking Lovecraftian monsters such as Cthulhu. One can fairly assume that getting into a Twitter war with the fictional monster made King’s day.

Stephen King fans can only hope that that the overlord of all things evil reminding King the “terrors” of the real world cannot hope to match what can be summoned up on the page will be enough to get King writing again. After all, Stephen King has only published two novels (Finders Keepers and End of Watch) and a book of short stories (The Bazaar of Bad Dreams) since 2014. By the standards of the usually extremely prolific King, that’s a dry spell.

Luckily, the Stephen King faithful still have something to which they can look forward: screen adaptations of King’s books, all of which are covered by The Inquisitr. Major film versions of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and It are expected next February and November. Respectively, a Netflix movie adaptation of Gerald’s Game is in the works and Spike TV will air a TV series based on King’s novella The Mist in 2017. Check back at The Inquisitr regularly for updates on all of these projects as new information is released.

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