--- title: Stephen King Just "Blocked" Donald Trump from Seeing 'It' description: The thriller author tweeted trying to "block" Trump from seeing movies adapted from his books, as retribution for being blocked on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-25T16:26:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:48.153Z og:title: Stephen King Just "Blocked" Donald Trump from Seeing 'It' og:description: The horror writer is trying to get back at Trump for blocking him on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8048b3d8e5397cf7/6988d16d656a3fbbfdbd0671/stephen-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: ABC's "Good Morning America" - 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen King Just "Blocked" Donald Trump from Seeing 'It' twitter:description: The horror writer is trying to get back at Trump for blocking him on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8048b3d8e5397cf7/6988d16d656a3fbbfdbd0671/stephen-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen King Says He Just 'Blocked' Trump From Seeing His Scary Movies > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 25, 2017 4:26 PM UTC  GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Author of contemporary horror, Stephen King is a guest on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, 11/2/15, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) GOOD MORNING AMERICA - Author of contemporary horror, Stephen King is a guest on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, 11/2/15, airing on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) Lou Rocco—ABC via Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 25, 2017 4:26 PM UTC Famous thriller author [Stephen King](http://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/) has made the leap to film, with not one but two of his stories lighting up the big and small screens next month. But there’s one audience member he’s not interested in having watch these adaptations, and that’s President Donald Trump. In a tweet shared Friday, King spoke out against Trump — and not for the first time. [Back in June](http://time.com/4816499/stephen-king-trump-block-rowling/), he tweeted that Trump had blocked him on the social media platform, as the president has done before [to other dissenters](http://time.com/4809002/donald-trump-twitter-block-james-comey/). Now, looks like King is hitting Trump as only he can. “I am hereby blocking him from seeing IT or MR. MERCEDES. No clown for you, Donald. Go float yourself,” he wrote. Of course, it will be difficult for King (or anyone else, for that matter) to enforce this particular “block,” no matter what is said on Twitter. Here’s what King wants him to miss out on, though: _It_, the [scary clown movie](http://time.com/4740804/pennywise-meme-2017/), hits theaters Sept. 8\. And [_Mr. Mercedes_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4354880/), a TV series starring Brendan Gleeson about a psychopathic killer and a retired detective, is currently airing on the AUDIENCE network. > [](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/900899429242343427) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/"},"headline":"Stephen King Says He Just 'Blocked' Trump From Seeing His Scary Movies","datePublished":"2017-08-25T16:26:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:48.153Z","description":"The thriller author tweeted trying to \"block\" Trump from seeing movies adapted from his books, as retribution for being blocked on Twitter.","url":"https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","twitter","Stephen King","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8048b3d8e5397cf7/6988d16d656a3fbbfdbd0671/stephen-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8048b3d8e5397cf7/6988d16d656a3fbbfdbd0671/stephen-king.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ABC's \"Good Morning America\" - 2015","caption":"ABC's \"Good Morning America\" - 2015","creditText":"Lou Rocco—ABC via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4915867/stephen-king-trump-block/","name":"Stephen King Says He Just 'Blocked' Trump From Seeing His Scary Movies"}}]}] ```