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J.K. Rowling’s been shutting down Twitter trolls left, right and centre

The author is notoriously anti-Trump and she’s hitting back hard at his supporters.
J.K. Rowling’s been shutting down Twitter trolls left, right and centre

If there’s one person we wouldn’t want to get into an argument with, it’s J.K. Rowling. The sharp-witted author has been serving a multitude of scathing comebacks to those trolling her anti-Trump tweets.

It all started when Rowling accused Vice President Mike Pence of hypocrisy following Trump’s ‘Muslim immigration ban’. She re-tweeted a tweet that Pence had posted back in December 2015, which read: “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.”

Quoting the Bible, Rowling wrote: “‘For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?’ Matthew 16:26.”

After presumably receiving hate for the tweet, she posted a Winston Churchill quote, which riled people up further.

So she treated the Twittersphere to some of her epic comebacks:

And our personal favourite:

Rowling has also re-tweeted fellow celebrities angry about Trump’s executive order including Kim Kardashian and George Takei.

No word from avid Twitter user Donald Trump regarding Rowling’s comments. Yet.

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