# Stephen King Compares Donald Trump To Cthulhu; Cthulhu Issues Angry Denial **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855 "2016-09-13T14:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/1 "2016-09-13T14:47:04Z")
I love this > **[Stephen King Compares Trump To Cthulhu; Cthulhu Issues Angry Denial](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-king-donald-trump-cthulhu_n_57d77e19e4b0fbd4b7bb4540?section=)** > > The Great Old One objects to being compared to the GOP presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/2 "2016-09-13T15:13:54Z")
That was great. 🙂 I almost wish I had a twitter account. ---
**Author:** ![quimper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7c8e57/32.png) [@quimper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quimper)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/3 "2016-09-13T16:09:08Z")
I think this is my [new favorite campaign logo](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/632292951377350656/9eh0Nsuu_400x400.png). Where can I get a yard sign? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/4 "2016-09-13T16:43:08Z")
Stephen King is Cool! A few years back, I was vetoed out of getting to see Maine as we traveled through Vermont and New Hampshire on vacation. I was told, “…but there’s Nothing to See in Maine.” I chose not to fight that battle, but I immediately thought, “Oh, Yes there is…!” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/5 "2016-09-13T20:15:11Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I love this > > [Stephen King Compares Donald Trump To Cthulhu; Cthulhu Issues Angry Denial | HuffPost Weird News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-king-donald-trump-cthulhu_us_57d77e19e4b0fbd4b7bb4540?section=&) Holy crap, (unholy cap?), found after clicking around a bit from your linked site: Make R’Lyeh Great Again Also baseball caps! > **[Official Cthulhu Make R'lyeh Great Again Also Cap](https://www.cthulhuforamerica.com/shop/official-cthulhu-make-rlyeh-great-again-also-cap/)** > > Summon R'lyeh with the Official Cthulhu Cap. 100% cotton, classic cut, adjustable. Perfect for Lovecraft fans and horror enthusiasts. Wear your allegiance! (I already have a Cthulhu For President Why Choose The Lesser Evil t-shirt as a novelty.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/6 "2016-09-13T20:31:48Z")
The “No Lives Matter” T-shirts are a nice touch. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/7 "2016-09-13T20:43:33Z")
> [@quimper](#): > > I think this is my [new favorite campaign logo](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/632292951377350656/9eh0Nsuu_400x400.png). Where can I get a yard sign? [https://cthulhuforamerica.com/swag/cthulhu-for-president-yard-sign/](https://cthulhuforamerica.com/swag/cthulhu-for-president-yard-sign/) I’ve become such a corporate drone I don’t even wear T-shirts or ball caps on the weekend ☹ I love the gear, though. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/8 "2016-09-13T20:43:42Z")
Cthulhu doesn’t have small hands. He can pick up and devour 1d6 (or 1d3, who cares at that point?) investigators every round. On the other hand (heh.), Lovecraft probably would’ve voted for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/9 "2016-09-13T22:06:10Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Cthulhu doesn’t have small hands. He can pick up and devour 1d6 (or 1d3, who cares at that point?) investigators every round. I absolutely loved that about CoC. No messing around, just d^n Investigators (PCs) eaten every round. The only time I got to play, my character survived\* by walking out of the room, house and down the road, never looking back, when he realized that the “man” talking to his friends was something a bit…more. - For certain values of “survived” that include situations where someone turns into a 300’ tall monster, destroying the house and killing your friends, while you’re busy walking past the neighbor’s house trying desperately not to look back. Probably refers to a short time value. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/10 "2016-09-13T22:09:37Z")
Thereby proving that Lovecraft was an enabler of horror… Really, I LMFAO ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/11 "2016-09-13T23:37:58Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Cthulhu doesn’t have small hands. He can pick up and devour 1d6 (or 1d3, who cares at that point?) investigators every round. > > On the other hand (heh.), Lovecraft probably would’ve voted for Trump. Nope. “As for the Republicans – how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/12 "2016-09-14T00:12:59Z")
I can’t wait for Trump’s reply to this. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/13 "2016-09-14T02:21:13Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > Nope. > > “As for the Republicans – how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.” Are we sure HPL is dead? He could have written that today. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-king-compares-donald-trump-to-cthulhu-cthulhu-issues-angry-denial/765855/14 "2016-09-14T14:32:06Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > Nope. > > “As for the Republicans – how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.” Er, uh… HPL, is that you?