What a horror.
Novelist Stephen King boldly predicted that Trump supporters will deny voting for the two-time president in the decades to come as the White House swatted away the comments from the long-time Trump-hater.
The “Carrie” scribe, 77, told UK newspaper The Sunday Times that President Trump’s loyal base will one day turn their back on the man who many voted for three times.
“There’s a story about the home run that was heard around the world,” King told The Sunday Times. “There are… tens of thousands of people who will say, ‘I saw Bobby Thomson hit that home run,’ and there were only, like, 5,000 people in the stands that day.”
“So I think the opposite is true [with Trump]. Twenty or 30 years down the line, when I’ll be dead and you’ll be old, I think a lot of people are going to say, ‘Well, I never voted for Trump.’”
The Trump administration fired back at the Maine-native by poking some plot-holes in his untidy narrative.
“Since Stephen has spent so long writing fiction, it’s understandable that he’d have no grasp on reality,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital.
In the interview, King decried the Trump administration’s immigration practices, likening the deportation of criminal illegal aliens to a dystopic 20th century novel.
“If I wrote this in a book in 1965 — if it got published at all — it would be published as an allegory like ‘Animal Farm,’” King said in reference to the classic Orwell novella.
“Nobody would have believed where we are today, with Gestapo agents in the street — they call themselves ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], but they’re basically guys that are armed, they are wearing masks, they have huge amounts of money to spend and they are everywhere,” King expounded.
After years of pointed, and oftentimes deranged criticism of the president, King revealed an uneasiness about the reality that many of his loyal fans are in fact Trump supporters.
“I’m aware of it. There’s never been, you know, an organized boycott,” he told the outlet.
“I feel I have an obligation to say what I think and be clear about it. It’s a question, like the song says, ‘Which side are you on?’” the author said in reference to a Pete Seeger song.
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