The master of horror is also a master troll. He has trolled President Donald Trump so much that the president has blocked him on Twitter.
After the latest cabinet meeting King tweeted this:
Trump's cabinet offers a postgraduate-level course in ass-kissing.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Then, he tweeted this:
Trump has blocked me from reading his tweets. I may have to kill myself.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Harry Potter auther J.K. Rowling came to King’s rescue. She tweeted:
I still have access. I'll DM them to you. https://t.co/MhibEYDBTg
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 13, 2017
Some have even argued that Trump blocking users is a violation of their First Amendment rights to read public communications from their President. The Knight First Amendment Institute sent a letter to President Trump about this. The letter reads in part:
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“Blocking users from your Twitter account violates the First Amendment. When the government makes a space available to the public at large for the purpose of expressive activity, it creates a public forum from which it may not constitutionally exclude individuals on the basis of viewpoint.6 This is true even if the space in question is “metaphysical” rather than physical; even if the space is privately rather than publicly owned; and “even when the limited public forum is one of [the government’s] own creation.”7 The government may impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions in a designated public forum, but it may not exclude people simply because it disagrees with them.”
King has trolled Trump a lot in the past.
The previous day, he tweeted this gem:
If Ivanka Trump had grown up in farm country, like some of us, she'd know her father is reaping exactly what he sowed.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 12, 2017
The funniest part is that Stephen King never tagged Trump in any of his tweets. So, that means Trump is wasting time searching for his own name on Twitter.
Stephen King even wrote a whole article for The Guardian trolling Trump and his voters. He made up six Trump-loving characters, “gave” them “truth serum,” and interviewed them in this fictionalized piece.
King has previously tweeted about Trump:
Populist demagogues like He Who Must Not Be Named aren't a new thing; see THE DEAD ZONE, published 37 years ago.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 15, 2016
After the controversy over Trump saying President Obama tapped his phones, King tweeted:
Obama tapped Trump's phones IN PERSON! Went in wearing a Con Ed coverall. Michelle stood guard while O spliced the lines. SAD!
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 4, 2017
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