How Stephen King was honored by U.S. presidents. What did Trump do?
While former U.S. president Barack Obama honored Stephen King with National Medal of Arts, the current U.S. president “honored” the author by blocking King from reading his tweets.
Stephen King, whose books, such as The Shining, Misery, The Body (made into the film Stand by Me), Cujo, It, Carrie, The Stand, The Green Mile, have sold more than 350 million copies, being one of the most successful and famous modern-American authors, was honored in different ways by Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Thus, while the former president gave him the National Medal of Arts, the current chief of state decided to block the author from reading his tweets.
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to block one of the most acclaimed names in literature probably because he had been tweeting critically of the President, who is currently polling at 60 per cent disapproval remarkably early in his presidency.
If Ivanka Trump had grown up in farm country, like some of us, she’d know her father is reaping exactly what he sowed.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 12, 2017
Trump’s cabinet offers a postgraduate-level course in ass-kissing.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Days to hit a 60% disapproval rating:
Carter: Never
Reagan: Never
H.W. Bush: Never
Clinton: Never
W. Bush: 1,756
Obama: Never
Trump: 144— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 13, 2017
According to Indy100.com, Stephen King noticed the decision of the leader and sent out a series of tweets protesting this fact. But most saw the blocking as a badge of honor.
Have others received a notification of being blocked from Trump’s tweets, or is it a hoax? It’s not as if his tweets are hard to find!
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
Trump has blocked me from reading his tweets. I may have to kill myself.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2017
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Blocked! Condemned to an existential wasteland of Trumplessness!
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 14, 2017
Stephen King has now been honored by two U.S. presidents:
– National Medal of Arts from @BarackObama
– Twitter block by @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/56XH1P7Vef— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) June 13, 2017
Welcome to the club. @AynRandPaulRyan will bring you the snacks and @mikd33 will bring you a pillow.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 13, 2017
Happens to the best of us https://t.co/ufX7tSl3YY
— AJ Joshi (@AJ) June 13, 2017
According to the same source, the Knight First Amendment Institute sent a letter to President Trump arguing that if he blocked Twitter users because he disliked their opinions, he was violating their first amendment rights he swore an oath to protect.
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