Stephen King was once again caught peddling fiction on politics after finding himself duped by a World Series post attributed to President Donald Trump.
While it’s true that artificial intelligence has made it increasingly more difficult to discern certain hoaxes on the Internet, no such technology appeared necessary to find the famed author’s inherent biases being played against him. Instead, little more than the most basic cut and paste was all it took to find King guilty of his own claims against the president after a satirical claim that neither MLB team would get invited to the White House.
Over the weekend, after the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers evened the series at one win apiece with a 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer and baseball enthusiast took to X to react to a fake post, “Trump says he won’t invite either team playing in the World Series to the White House. He can’t rise above his petty political concerns even for the great American game. If anything shows what a louse he is, that’s it.”
The message attributed to the president had read, “NO MATTER WHO WINS I WILL REFUSE TO INVITE EITHER BASEBALL TEAM TO MY BALL ROOM AS THEY ARE BOTH RUN BY HIGHLY INEPT OFFICIALS FROM CALIFORNIA AND ONTARIO CANADA. I DON’T HOST LOSERS. WE ARE ACTIVELY INVESTIGATING MLB. THIS WORLD SERIES IS RIGGED, PROBABLY BY THE DEMS & THE MAFIA.”
In addition to comments flooding the bestseller’s post, calling him out for failing to “check his sources before publishing,” a Community Note was slapped onto the out-of-touch allegation that explained, “The claim stems from a fabricated screenshot. Fact-checks and the White House confirm no such Trump post exists; the image came from a satire account and never appeared on his platforms.”
The repeated horror for King of being caught pushing falsehoods came after he had to delete a post in September following the assassination of Charlie Kirk that claimed the Christian patriot had “advocated stoning gays to death.”
After getting called out for the claim, the author removed it and stated, “I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.”
Meanwhile, amid a dispute with Canada over the use of edited remarks by President Ronald Reagan in an attack ad that was run during the first game of the World Series — prompting Trump to increase tariffs — the White House’s actual statement on the Fall Classic spoke to baseball’s unifying qualities as “Soldiers played it on Civil War fields, workers found hope in it during the Great Depression, and families rallied around it after the September 11 terrorist attacks.”
“In every moment of challenge and hope, baseball has reflected the values that make our Nation great–hard work, tenacity, and the will to win,” the statement went on. “This year’s World Series brings together two exceptional teams that earned their place through talent and determination. As the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays compete for the Commissioner’s Trophy, they remind us why baseball brings friends and neighbors together. Melania and I send our best wishes to the players, coaches, and fans for a fun and safe World Series. May the best team win, and may God bless our national pastime and the United States of America.”
While it remains to be seen at the time of this post if King will delete his latest promotion of falsehoods, he continues to get slammed in response.
You would think a best-selling author would take the time to check his sources before publishing.
— The Duck of Death (@deathduck2025) October 27, 2025
It’s a good thing you’re a fiction writer because the above never happened.
— Kristi Stahr (@KristiMStahr) October 27, 2025
Hey Steve! You should give your TDS a cool name like Captain Trips or something.
— Yot Rawk (@Bennythebull44) October 27, 2025
Community notes burn through Steven King’s tweets like Carrie going through people at the prom.
— Mitch “NARN Six Actual” Berg (New!) (@MitchBerg_Radio) October 27, 2025
Is there anything Trump does that you don’t complain about? You’re next book should be about a famous writer so obsessed with one man who got elected as prez that he loses his mind & all touch w/reality which causes him to then lose the respect of millions of his former fans.
— pmcall ⏳Pardon Assange, Snowden & Ver – FreeAafia (@pmcall) October 27, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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