The Shining author says Republican candidate’s campaign ‘scares me more than anything else’, adding that decline in reading has blunted voters’s ‘nose for bullshit’
Stephen King has said that listening to Donald Trump’s speeches “is like listening to a piano fall down stairs”, as he admitted that the Republican presidential candidate has a “real shot” of winning this November’s presidential election.
The horror novelist was speaking at the National book festival in Washington DC on Saturday, where he was being honoured by the Library of Congress for his lifelong work promoting literacy. King has long been an outspoken critic of Trump, putting his name to a statement opposing “unequivocally, the candidacy of Donald J Trump for the presidency of the United States” earlier this year, and needling him regularly on Twitter. Earlier this month, he joked that “Donald Trump is actually Cthulhu. The absurd hairdo isn’t absurd at all. It hides the tentacles.” On Sunday, he added that “Texas may go for Trump, but they have a saying for guys like him: ‘He’s so low, he could put on a top hat and crawl under a rattlesnake.’”
The most basic fact about Donald Trump: If brains were black powder, the guy couldn't blow his nose.
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