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Stephen King couldn’t write anything as scary as Donald Trumps America. In a new interview, the author answered a number of female inquiries for “The Guardian”, including: “If you had to invent an end to Trump America, what would it look like?”
Stephen King about Trump
“I think it would be an elevation – which would be a good end in my opinion,” replied King. “I would like to see it if he retired, let’s say it. The bad end would be that he would get a third term and take things out completely. It is a horror story either way. Trump is a horror story, isn’t it?”
King has been a loud critic of Trump for years and shares his views almost every day on social media. In June he tweeted: “Trump knows deep in his heart that he is an incompetent asshole.” He recently added: “Trump is like a warped child. If he doesn’t get his will, he will make a rage search.”
In 2022, King was asked about Trump in an interview with the “Sunday Time” s, and he did not take a sheet to the mouth: “I think Trump was a terrible president and is a terrible person. I think he actually behaved criminal and, for sure, I found him as a sociopath, who tried to overthrow American democracy – not out of a political desire, but because he could not admit that he was not able to he had lost. “
Before the election 2024 and current film projects
Before the election in 2024, King speculated that Trump refused to debate Kamala Harris against the democratic candidate, despite an official announcement. “Trump has announced that he will not debate Harris against Kamala,” wrote King. Trump spokesman Steven Cheung reacted in a statement to Newsweek: “Stephen King is an idiot.”
Elsewhere in an interview with “The Guardian”, King spoke about the many recent films of his books and stories, including “The Life of Chuck” and “The Monkey”. “I’m still excited when someone made something that I wrote,” he said. “I was thrilled this year to see ‘The Monkey’, as well as ‘The Life of Chuck’. I am very excited too [Edgar Wrights Neuverfilmung von] ‘The Running Man’, which was shot in England. I don’t write with films in my head. I just write stories that I and others might like. What happens with it then happens. I like films, but I think they are something else – like apples and oranges. “
About “Stranger Things”
He also answered the question of whether he would compare the Netflix series “Stranger Things” with one of his novels. “I don’t see it as much as a Stephen-King story like other people,” he said. “I think the Duffer brothers give me more recognition than I earn. How many talented people grew up with my material. When they were young and influenced, they read a lot of Stephen King and said: ‘We want to do something like that.’ But they are very talented, and the story you have developed much more than Stephen King.