--- title: JK Rowling on Stephen King, Cujo, Annie Wilkes and Trump description: J. K. Rowling asks Stephen King if the Trump era is more Annie Wilkes or Cujo canonical: https://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-15T13:20:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T06:50:27.000Z og:title: J. K. Rowling to Stephen King: What's the Timely Horror Story? og:description: King told Rowling he considers Trump a dementor from the world of Harry Potter og:url: https://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteae8301e045ffe90/6988c1fc7cdbac3264d57cb5/trump-rowling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1600 og:image:height: 900 og:image:alt: trump-rowling og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: J. K. 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Rowling in London, on Feb. 12, 2017 by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:50 AM UTCPublished: Jun 15, 2017 1:20 PM UTC [J. K. Rowling](http://time.com/4816499/stephen-king-trump-block-rowling/)‘s latest question about the President involves the iconic work of Stephen King, so she went right to the source. The [_Harry Potter_](http://time.com/4812905/jk-rowling-misogyny-twitter-rant/) author took to Twitter early Thursday morning to ask her fellow writer, “On a sliding scale of Annie Wilkes to Cujo, what level of delusion do you reckon we’re at today?” Specifically, her message quoted a Thursday morning tweet from President Donald Trump in which he [fought back](http://time.com/4819677/donald-trump-obstruction-of-justice-twitter/) against reports that a special counsel investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 election was investigating him for obstruction of justice. “They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice,” he tweeted. [_Cujo_](http://entertainment.time.com/2008/10/07/top-10-dog-movies/slide/cujo-1983/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel about a rabid killer dog that terrifies a woman and her young song while they’re trapped in a car, while Annie Wilkes is the name of the twisted captor who tortures an author in the 1987 psychological thriller book [_Misery_](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/21/the-big-chills-10-greatest-stephen-king-movies/slide/misery/). (Fans may recall that Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her portrayal of the villain in the Rob Reiner film.) King has long been a [fan of Rowling’s work](http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/23/reviews/000723.23kinglt.html), and it appears the feeling is mutual. The two [vocal critics](http://time.com/4777090/jk-rowling-trump-lewis-carroll/) of Trump have struck up a [Twitter](http://time.com/4763122/harry-potter-j-k-rowling-apologizes-snape-death/) friendship lately, so it’s not surprising that Rowling would ask her fellow blockbuster scribe for his take. > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/875322411012550656) King responded to Rowling by comparing the POTUS to a soul-sucking breed of creatures from her Potter books instead. “Well, I’m not the Donald’s #1 fan, so that lets out Annie Wilkes. I think he’s got more of a Dementor vibe,” he tweeted on Thursday afternoon. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/875447898309132289) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/"},"headline":"J. K. 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