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Topics: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Politics, Stephen King, Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, Threads
Emily Brown
Topics: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Politics, Stephen King, Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, Threads
Renowned author Stephen King has captivated millions of people across the globe with his mind-bending and lengthy novels, but when he returned to Twitter this week, all he needed was 16 words to get his message across.
King's surprise comeback to the Elon Musk-owned social media platform came just a few months after the author announced he'd be waving goodbye to it in November 2024.
In a post that's now pinned to the top of King's profile, he explained at the time that he'd 'tried to stay' on Twitter, but that the 'atmosphere [had] just become too toxic'.
This is coming from a man who's made a living come up with terrifying and twisted situations.
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"Follow me on Threads, if you like," King added, referring to Mark Zuckeberg's rival platform.
But now just a few weeks later, King has returned to Twitter and announced his comeback with a quick post which read: "I’m baaaack! Did you miss me?"
Two minutes after his first post, he shared another tweet in which he took aim at both Donald Trump and Twitter's owner, Musk.
Suggesting he'd made his return specifically to share his thoughts on the president and his adviser, King wrote: "Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dips**t! Goes double for Elon!"
The post isn't the first time King has criticized the pair in recent weeks. Shortly after Trump won the US election in November, King shared a post on Threads in which he claimed Musk was 'running the show' for Trump, despite the fact he cannot run for president himself because he was born in South Africa.
King wrote: “You can’t call Elon Musk the President-elect, because he wasn’t elected. In fact, having been born in Pretoria, he is ineligible to become president. Nonetheless, he is running the show. You know that, but it bears repeating.”
King's clear disapproval of Trump and Musk comes as the pair continue to work together in the White House after Trump declared Musk as being in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE.
However, the White House recently took a different stance on Musk's position in the government, as it described him as a senior adviser to the president who had no authority over DOGE.
When it comes to the reference of Vladimir Putin in King's tweet, it's worth noting that King spoke out just after Trump warned Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that he 'better move fast' against Russia's ongoing invasion of his country, or he was 'not going to have a country left'.
Trump's comments came after he engaged in a lengthy phone conversation with Putin, which Trump described as 'highly productive'.