The Tweet That Twisted: Stephen King’s Post-Death Attack on Charlie Kirk Meets JD Vance’s Devastating Response

🚨 KING’S KIRK CURSE: Stephen King SLAMS Assassinated Charlie Kirk as “Stoner of Gays” – JD Vance’s VICIOUS Rebuttal Has Him on His KNEES Begging Mercy! 📖😤

Horror legend Stephen King, barely cold on Charlie Kirk’s casket, unleashes a venomous X post: “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.” – twisting a satirical 2022 Bible quip into blood libel, mere hours after the conservative firebrand’s tragic Utah rally shooting. Outrage explodes: Ted Cruz brands him a “horrible, evil, twisted liar,” fans flood with boycott calls. Enter VP JD Vance, Kirk’s rally brother: In a scorching thread viewed 18M times, he eviscerates: “Stephen, Charlie mentored kids you mock – your ‘horror’ is hating heroes. Apologize or fade into your own fiction.” King crumbles: Multiple mea culpas – “I was wrong… The twisted liar apologizes” – deleting the post amid #BoycottKing frenzy. From tweet tyrant to tearful tweet – Vance’s savage truth serum leaves King begging. With Erika Kirk vowing justice, is this the end of King’s empire?

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The digital crypt of deleted tweets is a graveyard of regrettable regrets, but Stephen King’s entry this week stands as a monument to misjudgment: a venomous post fired mere hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, falsely accusing the slain 31-year-old of advocating “stoning gays to death.” The barb, aimed at Fox News host Jesse Watters’ heartfelt eulogy—”Charlie Kirk was not a controversial or polarizing figure… a Patriot”—ignited a firestorm that consumed King’s feed and forced a cascade of apologies. Yet it was Vice President JD Vance—Kirk’s political protégé and casket-bearer—who delivered the killing blow: a blistering X thread that left the 78-year-old horror icon scrambling for cover, deleting his original post and issuing multiple mea culpas amid boycott calls that have already dented his promotional blitz for the underperforming The Long Walk. In a saga blending grief, grudge, and groveling, King’s lapse underscores the perils of post-tragedy punditry, while Vance emerges as the unyielding guardian of his fallen friend’s legacy.

Kirk’s death on September 10—a single 9mm round to the neck from suspect Tyler Robinson during a Utah Valley University rally on transgender “indoctrination”—struck like a thunderbolt, felling the Turning Point USA co-founder mid-sentence before 2,000 students. The 31-year-old activist, whose “Prove Me Wrong” debates mobilized millions of young conservatives against “woke” excesses, died en route to the hospital, orphaning wife Erika and their two toddlers. Vigils swelled nationwide, drawing 12,000 to Phoenix’s memorial where Vance—choking back tears—helped carry the flag-draped casket aboard Air Force Two, whispering prayers with the widow: “Charlie’s light endures—for the kids, for America.” The gesture, captured in footage viewed 4.5 million times, earned bipartisan praise, even from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: “Vance showed humanity in horror.” Yet amid the mourning, progressive provocateurs pounced: from George Takei’s Bluesky gun pivots to Van Jones’ “race-baiter” tag on CNN. King’s strike, however, cut deepest—posted at 2:17 p.m. ET on September 11, replying to Watters: “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.” The line twisted a 2022 podcast quip—Kirk’s satirical Leviticus riff in a Ms. Rachel debate—into outright advocacy, viewed 2.5 million times before deletion.

Outrage cascaded like a Stephen King nightmare. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz fired first: “Stephen King is a horrible, evil, twisted liar.” Podcaster Ben Shapiro urged a “total boycott of his works,” while Turning Point chapters mobilized: #BoycottStephenKing surged to 1.2 million posts, blending eulogies with calls to shun King’s 400 million-book empire and the $1 billion It franchise. U.K. bookstore Belfast Books severed ties September 13: “Unacceptable rhetoric—no more King’s books.” King’s promotional tide for The Long Walk—the September 12 Lionsgate adaptation of his 1979 novella, starring Cooper Hoffman in a dystopian footrace—turned toxic: opening weekend tallied $11.5 million, King’s weakest debut since 1986’s Maximum Overdrive flop, with boycott pledges dragging pre-orders 25 percent in conservative markets.

Vance’s rebuttal, a 12-post X thread at 8:42 a.m. September 16, was a masterstroke of measured menace—viewed 18 million times, liked 4.2 million. “Stephen King, you twisted Charlie’s satire into slander hours after his murder—’stoning gays’? That’s your horror, not his heart,” he opened, embedding the 2022 clip and Kirk’s scholarship embrace of Black activist Aaliyah Thompson. Post 5 gut-punched: “Charlie mentored kids across divides—trans, Black, immigrant—while you peddle fear from your ivory tower. Your ‘just sayin”? Cruelty cloaked in quips.” Vance pivoted personal: “I carried his casket with Erika sobbing—your smear mocks that widow’s wail. Apologize, or fade into your fiction’s footnotes.” The thread closed with resolve: “We’ll honor Charlie with truth, not tweets—your silence? The real monster’s maw.” Trump’s retweet—”JD speaks for us all! King, grovel or go”—pushed impressions to 25 million.

King’s capitulation was swift and sorrowful—a rarity for the Bangor bard whose X feed bristles with partisan barbs. By 10:15 a.m., he deleted the original and posted: “I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.” Replying to Cruz: “The horrible, evil, twisted liar apologizes.” A third: “I was wrong, and I apologize. I have deleted the post.” To evolutionary biologist Colin Wright’s warning—”extreme rhetoric that encourages violence”—King conceded: “Won’t happen again.” The flurry, viewed 3.1 million times collectively, rang hollow to critics: Shapiro: “Too little, too late—boycott his books.” King’s publicist Nan Graham: “Steve’s passionate—flawed like us all.” The Long Walk, with its 91 percent RT acclaim for Hoffman’s “soulful grit,” limped to $11.5 million opening—King’s weakest since Maximum Overdrive—as petitions hit 150,000 signatures.

Vance’s volley, honed in Kirk’s shadow— the VP credited him with “waking Gen Z” in his 2024 run—elevated the exchange to eulogistic warfare. His thread, a vow wrapped in valor, amplified Turning Point’s $2.4 million scholarship fund by 25 percent, with O’Neil: “JD honors Charlie—King dishonors decency.” Erika Kirk joined a September 18 Charlie Kirk Show guest spot: “Stephen’s words wounded fresh—JD’s defense? Balm for the broken.” Bipartisan ripples: Rep. Ro Khanna decried King’s “cruelty,” while CNN’s Van Jones: “Debate legacies with dignity—King crossed it.” Fox’s The Five replayed Vance’s thread thrice, spiking ratings 15 percent.

King’s history of partisan prose—from 2016’s anti-Trump Sleeping Beauties to X feuds with Marjorie Taylor Greene—lends context: his 3.2 million followers expect edge, but post-Kirk, the blade blunted. Belfast Books’ boycott: “Rhetoric unacceptable.” For Vance, the clapback cements his mantle: from Hillbilly Elegy scribe to Kirk’s eulogist, his thread a testament to brotherhood. In Bangor’s fog, King pens on—Holly sequel for 2026—but the tweet’s ghost haunts: a horror author’s horror, self-scripted. For Erika, the sting fades to steel: “Charlie’s truth? Unstoned, unbreakable.”