How Stephen King Predicted Trump's Rise Decades Ago Author Stephen King predicted the rise of Trump 40 years ago — but he says the reality is scarier than anything he’s written. In US news, Stephen King sat down with NowThis to talk about President Trump and the eerie similarities between Donald Trump and the Stephen King Dead Zone character 'Greg Stillson.' Dead Zone is a novel King wrote in 1979, it features a a politician Greg Stillson, Donald Trump like in many ways. The Greg Stillson Trump similarities include his outlandish behavior and rise to power that is similar to...