Novelist Stephen King told the U.K. Sunday Times that some of President Donald Trump’s supporters will deny ever voting for him in the coming decades. King acknowledged that many of his readers are Trump supporters but said he has an “obligation to say what I think and be clear about it” because it is important to state “which side you are on.” King is apparently a “prolific Trump critic” on social media. Since I don’t go on social media and frankly couldn’t care less what Stephen King thinks about anything, the fact that Fox News featured an article on King’s politics surprised me.
Someday, perhaps the many Trump supporters who read King’s books … will deny that they ever did so.
Celebrities — for that is what Stephen King is — apparently think that their wealth and celebrity status make them people who should be listened to about politics or political issues. We have seen this movie (or book) before — with actress Jane Fonda supporting our North Vietnamese enemies during wartime; or with actor Tom Hanks shilling for Hillary Clinton and the dreadful Biden administration. Hollywood celebrities and famous fiction authors overwhelmingly support liberal causes and therefore the Democratic Party.
That a horror novelist influences anyone on political issues is doubtful — even one who claims that his book The Dead Zone foreshadowed the rise of Trump. King calls courageous and dutiful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the “Gestapo.” He also claims that Trump is trying to “rig the 2026 election,” perhaps by ensuring that only American citizens vote in American elections and by lessening election fraud by limiting or doing away with mail-in ballots. “Americans,” King says, “are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.” Trump, he told The Guardian, is a “horror story.”
King, like many of his liberal colleagues and fellow celebrities, suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He appeared recently on MSNBC where he again bashed Trump, calling the president “dangerous” and an “idiot.” It’s a wonder he doesn’t appear regularly on MSNBC, where TDS seems to be a requirement for hosts and guests on their “news” programs.
I confess to never having read any of King’s books, but I have an idea for his next horror novel. A liberal New England writer obsessed with the immigration policies of his government decides to take into his beautiful home three illegal aliens about whom he knows nothing. The writer does this to show his disdain for the government’s immigration policies and to show solidarity with what he perceives as the “victims” of those policies.
The writer believes that Immigration agents are just like the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. He thinks that he is acting bravely to shield the illegal aliens — just as righteous Gentiles did for many Jews during World War II. When ICE agents come to his residence because they received a tip that illegal aliens might be present there, the writer lies to them and refuses their request to search his residence and land. Unlike the real Gestapo, the ICE agents simply leave the residence because, although they have a tip that aliens are there, they don’t have probable cause that the aliens are there, In other words, they follow the law as they are sworn to do.
At first, the three illegal aliens seem okay and appreciative of the writer’s hospitality, and the fact that he is effectively harboring criminals. Soon, however, some strange things begin to happen in the writer’s home. Valuable things go missing. The three men begin taking an interest in the writer’s young, pretty granddaughter who is staying with the writer for the summer before returning to school in the fall.
The writer’s granddaughter appears to like all the attention she receives from the men. Unbeknownst to her and her grandfather — because he wouldn’t dare think of checking on the backgrounds of the aliens — one of the men previously committed a rape in his country, while another of the aliens previously committed a violent assault in his own country.
The writer is not pleased with how the men act towards his granddaughter so he tells them, apologetically, that they must leave his home. The men refuse to leave. Thus begins weeks of horror as the three illegal aliens effectively hold the writer and his granddaughter hostage in their own home. They take turns raping the writer’s granddaughter, and when the writer attempts to protect her they violently assault him. Eventually, the men commit a grisly murder of the writer and bury him on his own vast property. They keep the granddaughter alive to satisfy their sexual appetites.
But before the men killed him, the writer made a pact with the Devil — he would give the Devil his soul as long as the Devil allowed him to get revenge and to free his granddaughter. The Devil agrees. One night, the writer rises from his grave, vampire like, enters his former home, kills the three men, and saves his granddaughter’s life. Then he carries out his bargain with Satan and descends into Hell.
The writer’s granddaughter finds a diary that the writer kept up to the time he was murdered. In the diary, the writer introspectively questions how he could have been so stupid and so naïve. He realized that he had effectively written his last horror novel — about the horror that was inflicted on him and his granddaughter because his liberalism turned away those ICE agents when they came to his home on a tip that illegal aliens were there. The ICE agents, you see, had run background checks on the three men that the writer took into his home. They warned the writer that the men were dangerous — with two having criminal backgrounds. But the writer wouldn’t listen to the “Gestapo.”
That is a fictional story that Stephen King probably would never write. His liberal ideology and TDS wouldn’t stand for it. Someday, perhaps the many Trump supporters who read King’s books and go to the movies based on those books, will deny that they ever did so. That is far more likely than King’s prediction that they will deny ever voting for Trump.
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