Stephen King: ‘The
News Is Real. The President Is Fake’
by Daniel Nussbaum 10 Jul 2017
Horror novelist Stephen King continued his long-running social media attacks on President Donald Trump
Sunday with a post to his Twitter account in which he called the president
“fake.”
“The news is real. The president is fake,” the
69-year-old Dark Tower author wrote in a tweet Sunday that
quickly racked up nearly 250,000 “likes” and more than 75,000 retweets.
The message was the latest barb King lobbed at Trump on
Twitter this week; over the July 4 holiday, the author said the president makes
him want to “blow lunch.”
Last month, King claimed that Trump had blocked him from
reading his tweets on Twitter, and joked: “I may have to kill myself.”
King has been one of Trump’s most outspoken critics from
the literary world; in May of 2016, the author signed
on to an open letter along with more than 300 other writers
—including Dave Eggers, Cheryl Strayed and Michael Chabon —blasting
Trump’s then-candidacy for the presidency.
In a June 2016 interview
with Rolling
Stone, King said he was “disappointed in the country” for
Trump’s apparent popularity during the presidential campaign.
“I think that he’s sort of the last stand of a sort of
American male who feels like women have gotten out of their place and they’re
letting in all these people that have the wrong skin colors. He speaks to those
people,” King said at the time. He added that Trump appealed to people who
“would like to have a world where you just didn’t question that the white
American was at the top of the pecking order.”
Author Stephen King speaks at Book Expo America,
Thursday, June 1, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
President Barack Obama awards the 2014 National Medal
of Arts to Author Stephen King of Bangor, Maine, during a ceremony in the East
Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP
Photo/Andrew Harnik)
In March, the author — whose Dark Tower series has been turned into a movie debuting this
summer starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey — wrote a
short story using his Twitter account to take aim at Trump’s claim
that he had been wire-tapped by former president Barack Obama before the election.
Of course, King is hardly the only celebrity to have
called Trump a “fake” president. Just this week, singer Barbra Streisand penned
an op-ed for HuffPost titled “The Fake President,” in
which she called Trump an “angry, hollow vindictive man” and a “narcissistic
fraud.”
Stephen King
Stephen King is a
horror novelist, and a supporter of Authors United.
Note: Harold Evans is a
supporter of Authors United, and married to Tina Brown.
Tina
Brown is a supporter of Authors United, married to Harold Evans, a friend of Arianna Huffington, and was the editor-in-chief
for the Newsweek Daily Beast Company.
Rob Gregory was
the president of the Newsweek Daily
Beast Company, and a publisher for the Rolling
Stone.
Arianna
Huffington is a friend of Tina Brown,
a co-founder for the HuffPost, and a
director at the Center for Public
Integrity.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Center for Public Integrity, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), ProPublica, and
the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund.
Anna Quindlen is
a director at the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and a supporter of Authors United.
Diane S. Ravitch
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a supporter
of Authors United.
David H. Romer
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a
professor at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Michael Pollan is
a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, and a supporter of Authors United.
Michael Lewis is
a visiting fellow at the University of
California, Berkeley, and a supporter of Authors United.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), is a supporter of Authors
United, the founder of The Root,
a director at ProPublica, a director
at the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, and an Oak Bluffs
(MA) homeowner.
Malcolm Gladwell
is a supporter of Authors United,
and was a contributor for The Root.
Robert A. Caro is
a supporter of Authors United, and
an advisory board member for ProPublica.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike
Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Charles J.
Ogletree Jr. is a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ron
Gault is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and married to Charlayne
Hunter-Gault.
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault is married to Ron Gault,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a supporter of Authors United, and a correspondent for
CNN.
Toure
was a pop culture correspondent for CNN,
and a contributing editor for the Rolling
Stone.
Stephen King is a
supporter of Authors United, and a horror
novelist.
Michael Chabon
is a supporter of Authors United,
and a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, a supporter of Authors United, the founder of The
Root, a director at ProPublica,
a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, an Oak
Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Malcolm Gladwell
is a supporter of Authors United,
and was a contributor for The Root.
Robert A. Caro is
a supporter of Authors United, and
an advisory board member for ProPublica.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike
Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Ron
Gault is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and married to Charlayne
Hunter-Gault.
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault is married to Ron Gault,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a
supporter of Authors United, and a
correspondent for CNN.
Toure
was a pop culture correspondent for CNN,
a contributing editor for the Rolling
Stone, and Soledad O'Brien was a
guest at his 2005 wedding.
Soledad O'Brien
was an anchor at CNN, a guest at Toure’s 2005 wedding, and is the chair
for the After-School Corporation.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and chairman for the Turner Foundation.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, and is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and the founder of the Soros Economic Development Fund.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Center for Public Integrity.
Anna Quindlen is
a director at the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and a supporter of Authors United.
Herbert Sturz was
the chairman for the Soros Economic
Development Fund, and is a director at the After-School Corporation.
Soledad O'Brien
is the chair for the After-School Corporation,
was an anchor at CNN, and a guest at
Toure’s 2005 wedding.
Toure
was a pop culture correspondent for CNN,
a contributing editor for the Rolling
Stone, and Soledad O'Brien was a
guest at his 2005 wedding.
Arianna
Huffington is a director at the Center
for Public Integrity, a co-founder for the HuffPost, and a friend of Tina
Brown.
Tina
Brown is a friend of Arianna
Huffington, married to Harold Evans,
a supporter of Authors United, and
was the editor-in-chief for the Newsweek
Daily Beast Company.
Harold
Evans is married to Tina Brown,
and a supporter of Authors United.
Stephen King is a
supporter of Authors United, and a
horror novelist.
Rob Gregory was
the president of the Newsweek Daily
Beast Company, and a publisher for the Rolling
Stone.
Max Spielberg is
an intern at the Rolling Stone, and Steven Spielberg’s son.
Steven Spielberg’s
son is Max Spielberg, and is featured
in the Bill Gates "last day"
video.Matthew
McConaughey is featured in the Bill
Gates "last day" video, and an actor in the new Dark Tower movie debuting this summer.
Barack
Obama was featured in the Bill Gates
"last day" video, and the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Valerie B. Jarrett
was the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and is Vernon
E. Jordan Jr’s great niece.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a senior director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ron
Gault is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and married to Charlayne
Hunter-Gault.
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault is married to Ron Gault,
an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, a supporter of Authors United, and a correspondent for
CNN.
Toure
was a pop culture correspondent for CNN,
and a contributing editor for the Rolling
Stone.
Stephen King is a
supporter of Authors United, and a horror
novelist.
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