{"id":67109,"date":"2026-02-23T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/social-media-erupts-after-stephen-king-makes-false-claim-about-trumps-family-what-is-this-sh\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:54:56","slug":"social-media-erupts-after-stephen-king-makes-false-claim-about-trumps-family-what-is-this-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/social-media-erupts-after-stephen-king-makes-false-claim-about-trumps-family-what-is-this-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media erupts after Stephen King makes false claim about Trump&#8217;s family: &#8216;What is this sh&#8211;?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horror author Stephen King is facing backlash online Monday for a post tearing into President Donald Trump\u2019s personal life, including a line claiming that Trump has no children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump: has never had a child. Has been married 3 times. Ran several businesses into the ground. Never ran a home, couldn\u2019t make a bed to save his a&#8211;. Calls people he works with dumb, losers, ect. Has never done sweat labor. Has never served on a local committee,&#8221; King said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/2025747375424229420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in a post to X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He] has no life experience,&#8221; King added.<\/p>\n<p>The post immediately began drawing criticism from accounts like Libs of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-tears-average-guy-george-clooney-who-complained-constantly-about-common-sense-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP TEARS INTO &#8216;AVERAGE GUY&#8217; GEORGE CLOONEY WHO &#8216;COMPLAINED, CONSTANTLY, ABOUT COMMON SENSE IN POLITICS&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump literally has 5 kids. What is this sh&#8211;?&#8221; Libs of TikTok posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um\u2026 I&#8217;m pretty sure Donald Trump had children,&#8221; 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there a 25th Amendment for taking peoples&#8217; phones away?&#8221; Conservative writer Bonchie wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump, famously childless,&#8221; conservative reporter Jerry Dunleavy jokingly wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s comments come as Trump, who is the father of five children and is in his second presidential term, is set to address the country on Tuesday evening in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/news-events\/state-of-the-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 State of the Union,<\/a> a report to Congress on the administration\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s remarks mirror similar social media comments made about Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,<\/a> D-N.Y., a prominent progressive member of the House of Representatives, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PoliticalStacy\/status\/2025391754183168325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">In a tweet<\/a> put up by an account called &#8220;Stacy is Right,&#8221; a self-described MAGA mother of three, the author similarly disparaged elements of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s life and background.<\/p>\n<p>That post also mocks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-squad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat<\/a> for a lack of children, having never been married, never having run a business and never having had a &#8220;professional job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-blames-critics-trump-munich-hiccup-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AOC BLAMES CRITICS, TRUMP AFTER MUNICH HICCUP BACKLASH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[She] has no real life experience. Is a typical deadbeat socialist,&#8221; Stacy is Right said in her post.<\/p>\n<p>King reshared that post before putting up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own remarks about Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You literally plagiarized an entire post\u2026which was about AOC\u2026 and then applied it to Trump\u2026\u2026 for whom it isn\u2019t true and doesn\u2019t make any sense. Why are you plagiarizing? I thought you were a writer?&#8221; Matt Van Swol, a former Department of Energy nuclear scientist, posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s post isn\u2019t the first time King has taken to X to vent his political views. Since Trump\u2019s second term, King has used similar language to describe the president and his policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-swipes-trump-accusing-him-crowning-himself-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NANCY PELOSI SWIPES AT TRUMP, ACCUSING HIM OF CROWNING HIMSELF AS &#8216;KING&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dipsh&#8211;! Goes double for Elon!&#8221; King said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1892689291039437298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in a <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1892689291039437298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post <\/a>in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, King took to social media to compare ICE to Nazi Germany&#8217;s Gestapo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ICE is the American Gestapo,&#8221; King wrote, referring to the secret state police in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump is ruining the economy with his stupid tariffs,&#8221; King said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1909689856462070219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in another instance<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment on the message behind his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror author Stephen King is facing backlash online Monday for a post tearing into President Donald Trump\u2019s personal life, including a line claiming that Trump has no children. &#8220;Trump: has never had a child. 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