India, Sept. 7 -- Novelist Stephen King said Donald Trump's supporters will likely deny backing the former president in the future. The White House dismissed the claim, pointing to King's long history of criticizing Donald Trump.

King, 77, spoke to The Sunday Times and said he believes many Trump voters will later pretend they never supported him. "There's a story about the home run that was heard around the world," King said. "There are. tens of thousands of people who will say, 'I saw Bobby Thomson hit that home run,' and there were only, like, 5,000 people in the stands that day."

"So I think the opposite is true [with Trump]. Twenty or 30 years down the line, when I'll be dead and you'll be old, I think a lot of people are going to ...