Stephen King’s Elon Musk tweet on Trump a monster online

Horror novel maestro Stephen King’s debunking of a “rumor” about Elon Musk and Donald Trump has become a social media monster.

King’s tweet on X is hovering at 6 million reads this morning and 13,000-plus comments. The Maine scribe is trying to set the record straight and has done so in his trademark misdirection.

“I see there’s a rumor going around that I called the Musk-man Trump’s new first lady. I didn’t, but only because I didn’t think of it. There’s also a rumor going around that Muskie kicked me off Twitter. Yet here I am,” @StephenKing posted.

The first comment came from Musk himself: “Hi Steve!” @elonmusk penned.

The race to comment was then on! (With insults galore and @therealRoseannBarr quickly getting into the action.) But, Musk did not edit King and didn’t hint at doing anything to stop the dialogue.

It all comes as Tesla’s stock has surged nearly 34% from its last closing price before the election, as the Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column states. That’s Musk’s baby, to state the obvious. (Trump won both the Electoral College and popular vote, to state the obvious, again.)

With Musk now named Trump’s co-chair of federal efficiency — officially named the “Department of Government Efficiency” — he’ll be in the news for years to come. That agency’s acronym, “DOGE,” is a nod to Dogecoin. That cryptocurrency — whose mascot is a dog that muses things like “much wow” — has doubled in value since Election Day to 41.5 cents, the AP reports. (Musk, of course, is a fan — or the “Dogefather” of the electronic cash coin.)

It’s all interconnected and worth watching (we will) as the Trump Administration pulls into town.