--- title: Stephen King Talks About Getting Blocked on Twitter By Trump description: Trump can't block Twitter users but Stephen King tells Stephen Colbert how he really feels about being blocked. canonical: https://time.com/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-24T13:25:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:06.427Z og:title: Stephen King Tells Stephen Colbert How He Really Feels About Being Blocked By Trump og:description: A judge recently ruled that Trump can't block people on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen King Tells Stephen Colbert How He Really Feels About Being Blocked By Trump twitter:description: A judge recently ruled that Trump can't block people on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen King Tells Stephen Colbert How He Really Feels About Being Blocked By Trump by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 24, 2018 1:25 PM CUT by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 24, 2018 1:25 PM CUT Stephen King is far from afraid of the access he lost to President Donald Trump’s tweets. Following the court ruling that Trump [can’t block users on Twitter](http://time.com/5288946/trump-blocking-twitter-judge-ruling/ "undefined"), high-profile tweeter (and world-renowned author) [King](http://time.com/4816499/stephen-king-trump-block-rowling/ "undefined") stopped by Wednesday’s _Late Show_ to tell Stephen Colbert about getting blocked by the President months ago. “Now we’ve got a President who blocked me on Twitter, except the court says he can’t block anybody. So my question is, ‘Do I really want to follow that guy? I don’t think so,'” King said to Colbert. According to the horror author, whose 4.82 million Twitter followers know he’s no fan of the POTUS, he was blocked eight or nine months ago. The tweet that was the final straw? A pointed insult. “I might have said he had his head somewhere where a certain yoga position would be necessary to get it there,” he joked to Colbert. Once he was blocked, King got personal. “I blocked him from seeing my next movie, which was _It_, so no balloons for Donald Trump.” King had plenty more to say on the subject of tweets fired out of the Oval Office. And he even went on to tell Colbert that he blocked Vice President Mike Pence. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/"},"headline":"Stephen King Tells Stephen Colbert How He Really Feels About Being Blocked By Trump","datePublished":"2018-05-24T13:25:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:06.427Z","description":"A judge recently ruled that Trump can't block people on Twitter","url":"https://time.com/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/","keywords":["Newsfeed","TV","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/5289931/stephen-king-twitter-trump-blocked/","name":"Stephen King Tells Stephen Colbert How He Really Feels About Being Blocked By Trump"}}]}] ```