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Stephen King Calls the Trump Presidency ‘Scarier’ Than Any of His Novels — Watch
Indiewire ^ | July 13, 2019 | Jude Dry

Posted on 07/13/2019 6:27:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode

With “Midsommar” earning raves and performing well at the box office, horror has never been hotter. And if, as Justin Chang argued in the Los Angeles Times back in 2017, horror has become the defining genre of the Trump presidency, then Stephen King is its patron saint. The master of horror’s many works have seen renewed interest thanks to a slew of successful adaptations, from the box office record-breaker “It,” to its much-hyped follow-up “It: Chapter Two,” and many more projects currently in the works. And while the master of horror certainly is the king of scary set-ups, he says there’s one scenario so terrifying even he couldn’t improve upon it: Donald Trump’s presidency.

During an interview with NowThisNews, King laughed after being asked whether he thought the Trump presidency was scarier than one of his novels. “Short answer to that is, yes, I do. I do think it’s scarier,” he said.

However, King did concede that he predicted a similar authoritarian figure with similarities to the president might come to power in his 1979 book “The Dead Zone,” later adapted into a film by David Cronenberg in 1983.

“I was sort of convinced that it was possible that a politician would arise who was so outside the mainstream and so willing to say anything that he would capture the imaginations of the American people,” he said.

“The Dead Zone” features a power-hungry businessman-turned-politician named Greg Stillson, played by Martin Sheen. King described the character as someone who said “crazy stuff that nobody would possibly believe or so we thought, until Donald Trump came along.”

“My worry at the time that I wrote ‘The Dead Zone’ was that somebody like Greg Stillson might actually get elected and rise through the ranks, become president of the United States and start World War III,” King added. “But we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.”

Watch the full interview with King below.


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To: EdnaMode

Something tells me King was on an Epstein Vacation a while back?


61 posted on 07/13/2019 8:51:38 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: EdnaMode

Steven King lives in the same town as a friend of mine who happens to be a drug-and-alcohol counselor.

Word is, King is a hopeless alcoholic.


62 posted on 07/13/2019 9:04:43 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: Dogbert41

The opposite,he always shows Catholic items and I have noticed the only one.He is not afraid to do that.I don’t read fiction.For movies my husband hates him.I have no opine because he is not interesting in his movies but people like them.I debated him once on twitter but again he was boring.He has a name-people listen.


63 posted on 07/13/2019 9:15:37 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fhayek

” the shrieks of the freaks....”

Bravo. Attractive are Dean Koontz and Ann Rice. Repulsive are Steven King and Clive Barker. Koontz is an awesome writer. Trump is the best president for our times.


64 posted on 07/13/2019 10:09:45 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: EdnaMode

I’ve enjoyed many of King’s books but as a political commentator he needs to grab his ears and pull his head out of his posterior.


65 posted on 07/13/2019 10:18:38 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: All

I’ve long believed that King has been both mildly insane and significantly brain-damaged ever since he was nearly killed when hit by a car back in 1999.

And of course he was pretty weird even before that.


66 posted on 07/13/2019 10:21:43 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DesertRhino

“.....uses supernatural....etc....:as a crutch....”.
Excellent observation!! Anyone can write evil crap and sell it!! After his book, The Stand, King was all downhill. Don’t care how rich he is.....that just comes with the territory of selling your soul.


67 posted on 07/13/2019 10:39:04 PM PDT by CAGOPgramma (In God we still trust!!)
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To: dp0622

“Didn’t seem VERY young teen in IT have sex with like 5 boys in the novel?”

Nope. The group of kids are pre-teens—all of them are eleven years old. One girl, and six boys. They are trapped in a sewer and figure out that the only way to escape and stop the clown is to have an orgy. The girl initiates it. The book describes this sexual encounter in graphic detail, for several pages I think. King did not portray this as some sort of tragic mistake, ala Lord of the Flies. No, he portrays it as a positive experience and the way the kids defeat the clown.


68 posted on 07/13/2019 10:52:03 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: EdnaMode

King is yet another hateful leftist who would support someone else (antifa, jihadist mulim, the federal or state government through the fbi or dea) killing you.

Buy guns and ammo, folks. You will need them to defend against these leftists.

JoMa


69 posted on 07/14/2019 3:19:39 AM PDT by joma89
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To: unlearner

No, he portrays it as a positive experience and the way the kids defeat the clown.

Yes, by turning the sewer into a sexual playground.Never made it through that passage. Gave King up at that point.


70 posted on 07/14/2019 6:13:23 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: EdnaMode

Indeed the greatest fear the left has is when things go right they can’t sell the victim or race card for a vote.


71 posted on 07/14/2019 6:26:29 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: EdnaMode

Dear Stevey, SHUT THE F UP and write your asinine novels. On second thought, just shut up...


72 posted on 07/14/2019 6:35:24 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: TalBlack

I only learned about this a year or two ago. When I heard it, I found it hard to believe but found the passage online.

Before this I was already not a big fan of King because I was familiar enough with how he constantly defames Christianity by making all Christian characters in his stories out to be evil or stupid or worthless. He goes out of his way to do this and even evoke very specific emotions of loathing, hate, and violence toward Christians.

But after learning how this passage was part of the launch of his early writing career, I joined your position of having no use for his writing. It is shocking that the editor / publisher allowed the passage to remain in the book.


73 posted on 07/14/2019 8:34:53 AM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: EdnaMode

I’m sure Trump is very scary to the purveyors of perversion.


74 posted on 07/14/2019 8:56:11 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: EdnaMode

Next to the insufferable Clive Cussler, Stephen King is perhaps the most over-rated contemporary writer.


75 posted on 07/14/2019 11:06:54 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: EdnaMode

The more these rich celebrities caterwaul over Trump, the more I think maybe they were taking trips to a certain island.


76 posted on 07/14/2019 11:09:33 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I suppose changing the station on the radio was too much effort for him?


77 posted on 07/14/2019 11:44:06 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

“I suppose changing the station on the radio was too much effort for him?”
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Stephen King is your typical deranged liberal.

If a conservative doesn’t like a radio station, he or she changes to another station. If a conservative doesn’t like what is on TV, same thing....he or she changes the channel, or turns off the TV.

If a liberal, on the other hand, doesn’t like a radio or TV show, he or she tries to get it taken off the air so no one can see or hear it.

That’s what weirdo Stephen King did. The station that carried Gordon Liddy’s radio show was purchased by King. For a long time, it was just dead air. Then eventually, it came back on the air as a classic rock-and-roll station.


78 posted on 07/14/2019 3:36:43 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
“My worry at the time that I wrote ‘The Dead Zone’ was that somebody like Greg Stillson might actually get elected and rise through the ranks, become president of the United States and start World War III,” King added. “But we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.”
IOW, his stupidity and bigotry are two reasons he's a no-talent hack and demagogue.

79 posted on 07/14/2019 10:29:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: EdnaMode

Trump keeps his promises to the people NOT just to corrupt elites like the rest of Washington..

Guess that’s scary for corrupt elites and their sycophants...


80 posted on 07/15/2019 5:58:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
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