Stephen King has lashed out at X proprietor, tech billionaire and richest particular person on the earth Elon Musk for his assist of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Musk has lent his assist to Trump for November’s US election, after beforehand backing Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, even going so far as to present the real-estate tycoon and former Celeb Apprentice host a prolonged interview on the platform previously generally known as Twitter.
In a contemporary submit on 3 September, Musk retweeted polling information claiming that Trump might nonetheless conquer his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and will have a slight lead in the important thing swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia.
In response, Musk wrote: “A Trump victory is crucial to defence of freedom of speech, safe borders, protected cities and smart spending!”
King, who has had run-ins with Musk previously, had some alternative phrases for the 53-year-old businessman turned right-wing political activist. The writer brutally informed him: “You’re far too vibrant to swallow this man’s bulls**t.”
Again in April 2023, King was ‘trolled’ by Musk after X/Twitter launched a brand new coverage that wiped all pre-existing blue ticks on verified accounts and would now solely be given to those that subscribed to the location.
Nonetheless, writer King, who has been a vocal critic of Musk’s plan to take away free verification standing, was confused to see he nonetheless had a blue tick as of Thursday night.
The writer tweeted: “My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t. My Twitter account says I’ve given a cellphone quantity. I haven’t.” In response to King, Musk wrote: “You’re welcome namaste.”
Musk and Trump aren’t the one conservative figures who King has set his sights on in latest days.
The Shining and Shawshank Redemption writer gave a blunt response to discovering {that a} multitude of his books are actually banned from faculty libraries in Florida, a regulation which is now being challenged by six main e book publishers.
The 76-year-old author stated in response: “Florida has banned 23 pf [sic] my books. What the f***?”
Elsewhere, Musk has landed himself in sizzling water after he shared an AI-generated picture of Harris as a communist chief. In retaliation, critics of Musk have since made their very own AI photos of himself and Trump as each communist and Nazi leaders.