Acclaimed horror author Stephen King has made a surprise return to X/Twitter and immediately targetted Donald Trump and the website’s owner, Elon Musk .
The writer, who has penned such classics as The Shining , It and Carrie , is one of the many notable individuals to leave X in recent months following Trump’s return to the White House.
On 14 November 2024, King wrote: “I’m leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic. Follow me on Threads, if you like.“
The 77-year-old has also used Bluesky as an alternative platform where he has continued his anti-Trump rhetoric. In December, King warned his followers that Musk was “running the show” for Trump.
Just three months after leaving the platform, King made an unexpected return to X/Twitter on Thursday (20 February), just before the release of The Monkey , a new horror film based on one of his short stories.
In his first post, King jokingly wrote: “I’m baaaack! Did you miss me?”
The writer then quickly followed this up by adding : “Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dips***! Goes double for Elon!”
It comes amid tensions between the US and Ukraine over ending the war with Russia continued to grow as Musk launched a scathing attack on Volodymyr Zelensky .
Claiming, without evidence, that Ukrainians “despised” their leader, Musk said that Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia .
Musk made the remarks after the president sparked outrage by trying to silence Zelensky , who was defending himself over the president’s “dictator” slur.
The White House told Ukraine’s leader on Thursday to “tone down” his language, which included a remark that Trump lived in a Russian “disinformation space”.
Musk launched his tirade against Mr Zelensky on X, accusing him of running a “massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers”.
“He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of all Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election. In reality, he is despised by the people of Ukraine,” the SpaceX boss wrote.
In a previous X post, Mr Musk had attacked Mr Zelensky for posing with his wife in a Vogue photoshoot three years ago while Ukrainians were “dying in trenches”.
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