Stephen King: Donald Trump Is A Horror Story — And Other Insults From The King Of Horror To The Republican Candidate


Stephen King’s opinion on Donald Trump has been pretty clear throughout this election. He has joked that the Republican nominee is “actually Cthulhu,” tossed a “shame on you” to a certain subset of Trump voters, and referred to the candidate as “a big ole sulky baby.”

Of course, a lot of people — those with readerships to compare to that of Mr. King, and those without — have expressed similar opinions. However, this time King is speaking from a place of his own expertise. After all, this is the king of horror calling Donald Trump a horror story.

In honor of this, how often does someone actually get labeled as a horror story himself by someone who knows better than any American what one looks like? Here are a dozen other times Stephen King shot down Donald Trump with humor, eloquence, and sincerity.

In June of 2015, Donald Trump announced his run for President of the United States in a speech that would be remembered for, among other things, his characterization of immigrants to the U.S. from Mexico as rapists, drug dealers, and criminals.

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In the months immediately following, King threw out a few ideas for slogans the Trump campaign could use. In fewer than 140 characters each, he conveyed that Trump is deceiving his supporters, and that there is an issue of racial bias within the campaign and its support.

Later, he joked, presumably, that Donald Trump is actually Cthulu, H. P. Lovecraft’s famous tentacled and malevolent deity, the very sight of whom destroys one’s sanity.

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Unfortunately, Cthulhu himself was insulted by Stephen King’s comparison.

The denial didn’t dissuade the great writer.

Then there were the tweets where King modified an older literary quote to fit Donald Trump. King told NPR in 2013 that the “bounced lower” quote was his favorite teaser from a pulp paperback cover he saw as a kid.

He has also compared the Republican nominee to a country song.

No one gets to the root of local dialect and the colorful sayings that pop up in various regions like King, and he doesn’t miss when he draws out a southern colloquialism to discuss support of Donald Trump in Texas.

Sometimes, King has simply offered a direct insult, rather than elaborate humor or literary brilliance. Even a brilliant novelist can just express disapproval and dislike in a straightforward classic dis, right? Clearly, he can.

Other times, he has expressed what appears to be sincere sorrow at the success of someone whose campaign has been peppered with accusations of racial bias, sexual assault, encouragement of physical assault of protesters, and general xenophobia and ethnocentrism. He has declared that men who support Donald Trump should consider the experiences of women in their lives who have faced some of the offenses Trump is alleged to have committed.

Then there was the tweet in which King also promoted another author from his state, Tim Sample, while showing off a piece of political memorabilia that satirizes the classic Barry Goldwater campaign slogan, “In your heart, you know he’s right.”

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Notably, Goldwater’s campaign slogan was identically satirized during his run, and the notion to re-use the mocking slogan probably arises from the Clinton campaign’s reprisal of an anti-Goldwater ad. Mother Jones compares the two videos here along with a script mirroring the original. The Clinton campaign even used the same actor.

Could Stephen King actually write Donald Trump into a horror story for publication? If he ever does decide to, it’s clear he has collected plenty of material to work with.

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