Barack Obama stars as a scissor-wielding, ice cream-stealing thief who terrorises Donald Trump in Stephen King's latest string of horror stories published on Twitter.
In a tone that mirrored Trump's own, the author of hit novels 'The Shining' and 'Carrie' frenetically detailed how Obama might have tapped the phones of the president, and suggested that the former president may still be hiding in the White House.
King penned the series in the wake of the president's latest Twitter revelations at the weekend, in which he claimed Obama had tapped his phones during the "very sacred" election process.
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However this isn't the first time Trump has starred in King's 140-character thrillers, with the author drawing on him for inspiration last October during the election campaign.
Without any evidence to support the claim, President Trump on Saturday accused Obama of tapping the phones at his Trump Tower residence in New York, calling him a "bad (or sick) guy".
The accusation has since been rejected by FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, however the White House has asked Congress to pursue the matter.
Citing undefined "reports" of "politically motivated investigations", Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump was calling on Congress to "determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016".
A former spokesman for Barack Obama denied the allegations, deeming them "simply false".
"A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Kevin Lewis said in a statement.
"As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen."
- With AFP
