Legendary horror author Stephen King has been forced to call on Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election, as many Hollywood elites begin to turn against the president.
Biden remains convinced he is the right man to defeat Donald Trump despite the fallout from their disastrous debate and weak ABC News interview, and sent a letter to Congress to that effect on Monday morning.
However, King, a trusted liberal celebrity and anti-Trump voice, has spoken out to say Biden should step down.
“Joe Biden has been a great president, but it’s time for him to announce, for the benefit of the America he clearly loves, that he will not be running for re-election,” he wrote Monday morning.
Elon Musk, a King fan who often responds to him with jokes as CEO of X, chimed in with a cheeky dig at the responses.
Stephen King, a legendary horror fiction author, has been forced to call on Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election, as many Hollywood elites begin to turn against the president.
He exclaimed: ‘Even Stephen King is voting for Trump!’
King is unlikely to vote for Trump, as a post published a day earlier criticized the former president for his allies “planning what amounts to a fascist state.”
Typically reliable Democratic Party donors in Hollywood are holding off on their money until President Joe Biden is replaced at the head of the ticket in the wake of the aging commander in chief’s debate performance.
Biden, 81, regularly lost focus and trailed off mid-sentence when faced with a typically strong performance from his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, during their showdown on CNN.
Last week, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, who has already donated $100,000 this election cycle, and Disney heiress Abigail Disney, who has donated as much as $635,000, made headlines because they were among the first to announce they would stop funding until Biden steps down.
Now, more entertainment bigwigs are making similar moves. Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who has also donated $100,000, wrote an op-ed for Deadline in which he made clear he would no longer fund a Biden-led campaign.
In an email to The Los Angeles Times, Lindelof was adamant that despite his “immense respect” for Biden, the risks posed by another Trump presidency meant the stakes were simply too high.
“For me, it’s not about the ability to govern, it’s about the ability to WIN,” he told the newspaper.
Elon Musk, a King fan who often responds to him with jokes as CEO of X, chimed in with a cheeky quip.
Media mogul Barry Diller, who contributed about $150,000 this cycle, also said: Ankle that he would no longer fund Biden’s campaign. Diller, known for his roles on Fox and USA Television, is married to designer Diane Von Furstenberg.
But one key figure, Andy Spahn, known for his role as an adviser to Hollywood’s richest people on how to donate to liberal causes, is calling for calm.
“Everyone needs to take a breather. This will be resolved soon,” he told The LA Times.
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel alluded to the trend at an event in Colorado last week.
Emanuel said most of his wealthy friends are focusing on the Senate and Congress when it comes to donations. He then blamed the Democratic Party for the chaos created.
“(Biden) said he would run for one term, and he’s running to restore democracy. Then he runs for a second term, that’s the first nonsense, as he would say. He and his colleagues have told us that he’s been healthy for over a year,” Emanuel said, via The Hollywood Reporter.
“I had a father who died at 92, but I took his car away from him at 81, and for me it was a very simple test. If you were driving from downtown Beverly Hills to Malibu, would you want Biden to do it at night? Would you want Trump to do it at night?”
“If the answer is neither, then you cannot possibly run a $27 trillion enterprise called the United States,” he ranted.
The usually reliable Democratic Party donors in Hollywood are holding on to their money until President Joe Biden is replaced at the top of the ticket following the aging commander in chief’s disastrous debate performance.
Many liberals have begun to worry that Biden could hand the White House back to Trump.
In contrast, the Trump campaign continues to raise money hand over fist, reporting $331 million in the second quarter of 2024.
That figure exceeds the $264 million that Biden’s re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee reported raising during the same period.
Trump’s total includes $111.8 million the campaign says it raised in June. That sum is less than the $127 million Biden reported raising last month, which includes more than $33 million on and after the debate day.
But the Trump campaign reports it ended the quarter with $284.9 million in cash on hand, compared with $240 million reported by Biden.