Twitter Reacts To Donald Trump’s Move To Block Stephen King On Microblogging Site

Author Stephen King said Tuesday President Donald Trump had blocked him on Twitter. The move came after King posted a critical tweet about White House senior adviser and Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Ivanka criticized "the level of viciousness" her father had to face. "My father and this administration intends to be transformative, and we want to do big, bold things," Ivanka said during the interview. "With all the noise, with all the intensity of the media coverage... ultimately, we're really focused on why the American people elected Donald Trump as their president," she added.

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In response to Ivanka's statement during the interview, King posted a tweet Tuesday condemning her comments. "If Ivanka Trump had grown up in a farm country, like some of us, she’d know her father is reaping exactly what he sowed, "he wrote. A few hours later, King tweeted informing his followers Trump “blocked me from reading his tweets. I may have to kill myself.”

Following this, British author J.K. Rowling — who is also critical of Trump administration — tweeted to the 69-year-old saying she would message him Trump’s tweets. “I still have access. I'll DM them to you,” she tweeted.

Before being blocked by Trump, King posted another tweet criticizing the president's cabinet. “Trump's cabinet offers a postgraduate-level course in a-- -kissing,” he wrote. Much like other Trump critics, King takes to Twitter to condemn Trump and his policies. Last month, he said the fact that Trump has control of the nuclear arsenal in the country is "worse than any horror story I ever wrote." In past, he called Trump a “nasty man,” “sulky baby,” and “Cthulu.”

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This is not the first time the 71-year-old president has blocked someone on Twitter. On Tuesday, VoteVets, an organization representing military veterans and their families, said Trump blocked them on Twitter because they did not agree with their proposed Middle Eastern travel ban. “The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced,” the organization tweeted.

On June 6, lawyers for two Twitter users, Holly O'Reilly and Joe Papp, sent a letter to the White House asking Trump to unblock them on Twitter, the Associated Press reported. O’Reilly and Papp claimed the president violated the First Amendment governing freedom of speech by blocking them on Twitter.

Before being blocked, O’Reilly had posted a video of Pope Francis giving a sidelong look at Trump and had captioned it saying this was “how the whole world sees you.” On the other hand, Papp had responded to Trump’s weekly address by asking why he did not attend a rally by supporters and adding, with a hashtag, “fake leader.” “The viewpoint-based blocking of our clients is unconstitutional,” attorneys of O’Reilly and Papp said at the time.

Following are some reactions from Twitterati over Trump blocking King on the microblogging site: