I’ve really enjoyed Steven King’s writing, (The Stand, Stand By Me, The Shining, etc), and he hasn’t lost his touch.

 

Stephen King: 'Trump was a horrible president and is a horrible person'

"I think he actually engaged in criminal behavior and, certainly, I felt that he is a sociopath who tried to overturn the American democracy because he could not admit that he had lost," said King, 74.

The author previously called out Trump publicly back in 2020, when he criticized the president for his initial response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Though King admitted he struggles to relate to Trump's supporters, he refuses to strip them of their humanity based on their politics.

"I do understand that a guy driving a pickup truck covered with Trump and NRA stickers — you know, take my rifle when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers — would stop and pick up a stranger if he was in a rainstorm and say: ‘Where you going, buddy?’" he explained. "That guy might go out of his way to take him there because people as individuals are good. I think sometimes when they get to be a political group, believing the lies from the ex president, that can be a problem.”