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Stephen King predicted what would happen if Trump becomes President in 1983 (Original Post) Feeling the Bern May 2016 OP
Trump's fingers are too tiny to push that button. Scootaloo May 2016 #1
LOL! maddiemom May 2016 #2
actually rtracey May 2016 #3
That may be true... catnhatnh May 2016 #4
It Was Actually 1979 chrisau214 May 2016 #5
The moviemakers were probably going for "believable" localroger May 2016 #6

chrisau214

(235 posts)
5. It Was Actually 1979
Sat May 28, 2016, 02:23 PM
May 2016

'The Dead Zone' was published in 1979. The movie version was released in 1983.

The movie version of Stillson is a scary character. The book version is scary times ten.

localroger

(3,605 posts)
6. The moviemakers were probably going for "believable"
Sat May 28, 2016, 06:21 PM
May 2016

...as in, nobody would really believe that a huckstering asswipe could hustle his way into the Oval Office. Of course Reagan already had, but he was at least a semi-competent actor who was obviously on a leash held by his corporate handlers. Book Stillson is Trump without his inheritance, and Trump is Stillson with a billion dollars, to at least three significant figures.

Neither Stillson nor Trump were "trained" in the hypnotic arts as Scott Adams was, but they both have a natural aptitude which was shared in real life by people like Joseph (How many card-carrying communists are there today) McCarthy. Take that aptitude, combine it with a total lack of fealty to anything except your own ego, and you have a guy who would push the button just to see what happens.

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