Something very telling has happened since September 10th. Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a vile individual. What matters is how people reacted afterward. Instead of grieving or even just staying quiet, some of the loudest voices in Hollywood and publishing jumped in with cheap shots, with absolute lies about Charlie. That’s where Tom Hanks and Stephen King come in. They are two of the most vocal cheapshotters in the TDS industry, and they have outdone themselves here.
Let’s talk about Hanks. He couldn’t hold back. As soon as Kirk was murdered, he twisted it into another swipe at President Trump, MAGA, and Trump supporters. People are tired of it. He’s been doing this for a while. Months ago, he used SNL and NBC to ridicule Trump supporters. Kirk’s death only gave him another excuse to ramp it up.
NBC executives had had enough. The board of directors stepped in and made a decision that caught a lot of people off guard: they cancelled Tom Hanks’ future appearances on SNL. He had been scheduled to return in November of this year for holiday-season episodes mocking Trump supporters. These sketches were already written. They were ready to go. Now they’re scrapped. Hanks, his agent, and his manager are said to be furious. Good. Let them figure out how disgusting the majority of Americans feel about them.
Hanks had four appearances lined up, all of them caricaturing Trump supporters as drunks and criminals. NBC axed the whole thing. Hanks insisted SNL will regret it when the ratings drop. NBC won’t back down. They’re just handing the parts to another actor, and critics say that tells you everything about their hypocrisy.
Look at the larger picture. SNL hasn’t been truly funny for decades. Many say its last strong years were in the 1980s. After that, the show drifted downward until it became a political monologue full of recycled Trump jokes. Viewers are bored. Dropping Hanks only underlines the problem. And when it comes to mocking Charlie Kirk so soon after his assassination, Americans view it as cruel, disrespectful, and disgusting. The man hasn’t even been laid to rest, and the public won’t forget it.
I think the only reason SNL is still around is nostalgia for when it was actually funny.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELNow let’s talk about Stephen King. Ever since Kirk’s death, the backlash against anyone smearing him has been strong. The killer, Tyler Robinson, was a man who hated free speech and lashed out at opposing views. In the middle of that, King got online and claimed Kirk had been violent toward members of the LGBTQ community. That was a bald-faced lie. A complete fabrication. It was debunked almost instantly.
The blowback was huge. King had to issue a rare public apology after theater chains, including AMC, Regal, and National Amusements, along with Lionsgate, demanded that he take responsibility. But the fallout didn’t stop there. He was set to promote his film adaptation of The Long Walk and even had a cameo role planned in HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry. Both projects cut him loose. His cameo scene, which cost HBO nearly $800,000 to build sets for, is gone. Executives said keeping him on would alienate audiences and overshadow the show. King, reportedly furious, is now considering blasting HBO on social media. Because that’s what childish egos do when they don’t get their way: they throw tantrums online.
Meanwhile, the boycott calls against The Long Walk keep piling up. Many say the movie is doomed to flop, buried under King’s reckless comments and the public’s rejection of Hollywood’s poison politics. The reputation he once carried as untouchable is gone. In its place—outrage, lost work, and a credibility problem he can’t fix.
Stephen King is having a bad day.
I dont care that he apologized and deleted. If this had been a one-time occurrence, I could turn the other cheek.
Not anymore. He has spewed hateful propaganda for years.
I hope he is held accountable and the Kirk family sues tf out of him.… pic.twitter.com/hNcuTMpK38
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 12, 2025
So here we are. Tom Hanks and Stephen King, once icons, are now caught in the backlash for using Kirk’s assassination as political theater. They just couldn’t help themselves. The reaction from the public is unmistakable. Americans are tired of propaganda. They’re demanding honesty, not smears. A line has been drawn, and millions are standing behind it. And let’s be honest, Hanks and King won’t be the last. Hollywood’s leftist crowd has made a career out of being nasty, vile, and arrogant, and convinced they’re more important than the American people they lecture.
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