Overview

• King described Donald Trump’s time in office as a horror story and called for impeachment as a fitting conclusion
• He cautioned that a third term would represent a dangerous consolidation of power that he termed a “bad ending”
• The remarks were published in The Guardian’s reader Q&A on August 13–14
• They build on months of social-media criticism on X, where King branded Trump an “incompetent asshole”
• Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung has publicly rebuked King’s critiques before, most notably calling him “a dumbass”