The author criticized Trump’s age after the former president appeared to back out of the presidential debate against Harris.
Bestselling author Stephen King’s X, formerly Twitter, post weighing in on Donald Trump appearing to back out of the presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris has taken off on social media on Saturday.
On Thursday, Trump’s campaign team said the former president would not commit to appearing at the next presidential debate until the “political chaos” surrounding the Democratic Party’s nomination process was over.
The presidential debate on September 10, hosted by ABC News, was previously scheduled when President Joe Biden was expected to face off against Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. However on Sunday, Biden announced he would step down from the race and endorse Harris, the now presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, said in a previous statement that it would be “inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds” about whom they confirm as their nominee.
King, the author of classic horror novels like The Shining and It, and an outspoken Democrat who frequently criticizes Trump, took aim at the former president’s age as he is now the oldest presidential candidate in the 2024 election at 78 years old. Biden is 81.
“Elderly Presidential candidate Don Trump doesn’t dare debate Kamala Harris”, King wrote on Saturday afternoon.
