White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “Since Stephen has spent so long writing fiction, it’s understandable that he’d have no grasp on reality.”

King, who has nearly 7 million followers on X, wrote on Sept. 1 that Americans would turn against Trump by the next election.

“Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave,” King wrote. “Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.”

King has been a longtime critic of Trump and Republicans. During Trump’s first term in office, King called for his impeachment and compared the detention of migrant families to one of his horror novels.