Author Stephen King issues desperate plea to Joe Biden as Elon Musk chimes in with cheeky jibe

Stephen King, a legendary writer of scary fiction, has been frightened into pleading Joe Biden to driblet retired of nan 2024 election, arsenic galore Hollywood elites start to move connected nan president. 

Biden remains adamant that he's nan man to hit Donald Trump contempt nan fallout from his statement disaster and feeble ABC News interview, sending retired a missive to Congress saying arsenic specified early Monday.

However, King - a reliable personage wide and anti-Trump sound - has spoken retired to opportunity that Biden should telephone it quits. 

'Joe Biden has been a good president, but it’s clip for him—in nan interests of nan America he truthful intelligibly loves—to denote he will not run for re-election,' he wrote Monday morning.

Elon Musk, a instrumentality of King's who often chirps backmost astatine him arsenic nan CEO of X, jumped into nan replies pinch a cheeky jibe.

He exclaimed: 'Even Stephen King is voting for Trump!' 

King is not apt to ballot for Trump, arsenic a station conscionable a time earlier slammed nan ex-president for his friends 'planning what amounts to a fascist state.' 

Typically reliable Democratic Party donors successful Hollywood are withholding their rate until President Joe Biden is replaced astatine nan apical of nan summons successful nan aftermath of nan aging commander-in-chief's statement performance.

Biden, 81, regularly mislaid attraction and trailed disconnected mid-sentence erstwhile faced pinch a typically robust capacity from his Republican challenger, ex-president Donald Trump during their showdown connected CNN. 

Last week, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, who has donated $100,000 already this predetermination cycle, and Disney heiress Abigail Disney, who has earmarked donations of up to $635,000, made headlines arsenic they were among nan first to announces that they were ceasing backing until Biden pulls out.

Now much bigshots successful tinsel municipality are making akin moves. Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who has besides fixed $100,000, wrote an op-ed for Deadline successful which he made it clear he would nary longer money a Biden-led campaign.

In an email to The Los Angeles Times, Lindelof doubled down saying that contempt his 'immense respect' for Biden, nan risks posed by different Trump presidency meant nan stakes were simply excessively high. 

'For me, this isn’t astir nan expertise to govern, it’s astir nan expertise to WIN,' he told nan newspaper. 

Media mogul Barry Diller, contributor of astir $150,000 this cycle, besides told The Ankler that he wouldn't proceed to money nan Biden campaign. Diller, known for his roles astatine Fox and USA Television, is joined to designer Diane Von Furstenberg. 

However 1 cardinal figure, Andy Spahn, who is known for his domiciled successful advising Hollywood's wealthiest group really to donate to wide causes, is urging calm. 

'Everyone conscionable needs to return a breath. This will benignant itself retired soon enough,' he told The LA Times. 

Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel alluded to this inclination past week astatine an arena successful Colorado.

Emanuel said that astir of his able pals are concentrating connected nan Senate and Congress erstwhile it comes to donations. He went connected to blasted nan Democratic Party for nan messiness created. 

'[Biden] said he was going to tally for 1 term, and he’s doing it to reconstruct democracy. He past runs for a 2nd word — that’s nan first spot of malarkey, arsenic he would say. He and his cohorts person told america that he’s [been] patient for complete a year,' Emanuel said, via The Hollywood Reporter. 

'I had a begetter who died astatine 92, but astatine 81 I took distant his car, and it was a very elemental trial for me. If you were driving from downtown Beverly Hills to Malibu, would you want Biden to do it astatine night? Would you want Trump to do it astatine night?' 

'If nan reply is neither, you cannot person them moving a $27 trillion institution called nan United States,' he ranted. 

In contrast, Trump's run continues to raise money manus complete fist, reporting a haul of $331 cardinal successful nan 2nd 4th of 2024.  

That number bests the $264 cardinal that Biden’s reelection run and nan Democratic National Committee reported raising complete nan aforesaid period.

Trump’s full includes $111.8 cardinal that nan run says it raised successful June. That sum is little than nan $127 cardinal Biden reported raising past month, which includes much than $33 cardinal connected nan time of nan statement and successful its aftermath.

But Trump’s run reports that it ended nan 4th pinch $284.9 cardinal rate connected hand, compared pinch $240 cardinal reported by Biden.