“It’s a question, like the song says, ‘Which side are you on?’” he said.

King suggested that future history books would portray Trump negatively and that Trump’s supporters would be quick to disassociate from him.

“There’s a story about the home run that was heard around the world,” King told the outlet. “There are… tens of thousands of people who will say, ‘I saw [the baseball player Bobby Thomson] hit that home run,’ and there were only, like, 5,000 people in the stands that day. So I think the opposite is true [with Trump]. Twenty or 30 years down the line, when I’ll be dead, and you’ll be old, I think a lot of people are going to say, ‘Well, I never voted for Trump.’”

King pointed to his 1979 book “The Dead Zone” as having foreshadowed Trump’s presidency, saying few would have believed fiction could become reality.

“Nobody would have believed where we are today, with Gestapo agents in the street — they call themselves ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], but they’re basically guys that are armed, they are wearing masks, they have huge amounts of money to spend, and they are everywhere,” he said.