Stephen King, the 78-year-old horror novelist who has spent 2025 turning his X account into a monument to Trump Derangement Syndrome, outdid himself on Monday with a post so detached from reality it could pass for one of his novels.

King posted a lengthy broadside against President Trump that included this claim:

"Trump: Has never had a child. Has been married 3 times. Ran several businesses into the ground. Never ran a home, couldn't make a bed to save his ass."

He kept going:

"Calls people he works with dumb, losers, etc. Has never done sweat labor. Has never served on a local committee. Has no life experience."

Donald Trump has five children. Their names are Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron. He shares his three eldest with first wife Ivana, his daughter Tiffany with ex-wife Marla Maples, and his youngest son Barron with wife Melania. This is not classified information. It is available to anyone with an internet connection or a television set manufactured after 1980.

The Internet Did Not Let It Slide

Donald Trump Jr., 48, responded to King's post with the understatement of the week:

"Well, this is news to me… unless he means birthed a child which would also hold true for every male ever. TDS is real and it's scary."

Conservative writer Jerry Dunleavy quipped about "Donald Trump, famously childless." 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky got in on the action as well. Conservative blogger Bonchie posed a question that many were probably thinking:

"Is there a 25th Amendment for taking peoples' phones away?"

The Daily Mail approached King for comment. None was included.

A Pattern, Not a One-Off

If this were an isolated lapse, it might be forgettable. It isn't. King's return to X in 2025, after leaving in 2023 in protest of then-new owner Elon Musk, has produced a steady stream of posts that range from unhinged to defamatory.

Almost immediately after returning, he called Trump "a traitorous, Putin-loving dipshit." In April, he claimed Trump was "ruining the economy with his stupid tariffs." Just last month, he framed ICE agents as "the American Gestapo," comparing federal law enforcement officers doing their jobs to Nazi secret police.

And then there was the Charlie Kirk incident. Just days after the 31-year-old conservative activist's death in September, King falsely claimed that Kirk "advocated stoning gays to death." Hours later, after deleting the tweet, King offered a partial retreat:

"I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays."

He then pivoted to claiming that "what he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages." He also admitted he had not "fact-checked" his post. A man who slandered a dead 31-year-old and now claims a father of five has never had a child does not fact-check. This much is clear.

When the Resistance Becomes the Parody

There is something instructive about watching the cultural left's most celebrated figures dissolve into exactly the kind of misinformation they claim to oppose. For years, the accusation from the left has been that conservatives live in an "alternative reality," that the right peddles falsehoods and ignores basic facts. The same crowd cheered when social media platforms built entire censorship architectures around the concept of "misinformation."

Now their literary hero is posting verifiably false statements about the president's family to millions of followers. No content warning. No community note sufficient to capture the absurdity. Just a man with 7 decades of life experience and an internet connection claiming that one of the most publicly known fathers in American life has no children.

King also penned a post Monday slamming Trump for his repeated use of the phrase "fake news." The irony writes itself, though even King couldn't have plotted it this neatly.

This is what TDS looks like in its terminal stage. Not rage. Not strategy. Just a man typing things that aren't true and hitting send, confident that hatred of the right will carry him past the need for accuracy. It carried him past a dead man's grave in September. On Monday, it carried him past five living, breathing human beings who happen to share their father's last name.