Former television star Roseanne Barr and Black Lives Matter leader Shaun King warred with each other on social media after King compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin—and it may all lead back to the Internet’s bizarre Pizzagate theory.
King launched into his attack by noting that by winning Time‘s “Man of the Year” honor, Donald Trump was in “good company.”
Just a reminder.
Hitler.
Stalin.
Putin.
Trump.Time Person of the Year.
Trump actually very much deserves to be in this company. pic.twitter.com/MTty3EMGGH
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 7, 2016
While most of social media simply rolled their eyes at King’s comparison, Barr, who did not endorse Trump but spoke favorably of the then-Republican nominee over the summer, fired back with a concise tweet of her own.
@ShaunKing Fuck u
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) December 7, 2016
King engaged.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 7, 2016
And then dug deeper, playing on Barr’s stalled entertainment career.
Roseanne need's a free hug. Without talented Hollywood writers she hasn't told a good joke since the 90s. I think she's angry at herself. https://t.co/SN7HgazS8D
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 7, 2016
I showed my teenage daughters this tweet and it meant nothing to them. They have never heard of you. Relevancy is not your forte. https://t.co/SN7HgazS8D
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 7, 2016
Barr launched another volley.
@ShaunKing no one's heard of u, toad. go fuck yourself.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) December 7, 2016
Annnnnnd King fired back.
Told you, without writers, she's short on comedy. Sad, honestly. https://t.co/44stTUwsLH
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 7, 2016
And again.
Roseanne has the Pizzagate guys so… ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/bb1Q4TgDN2
— Jonathan Harris (@countrycaravan) December 7, 2016
The two went on for some time, with replies chiming in that one, the other, or both had little to no impact on culture in any real way. At some point, late Wednesday, Barr took to retweeting any response calling her a “hater” of King, and then King’s most memorable Trump tweets.
Some of Barr’s anger with King, who was a staunch Hillary supporter, may stem not from her love of Trump, but from her belief in Pizzagate, the bizarre conspiracy theory that says Clinton and other prominent Democrats are part of an international child sex ring operating out of a DC-area pizzeria.
@mygreatopinion @Varbind @Arnian @ShaunKing i couldn't vote4 racist jewhaters, & I vowed 2 fight your murderous psycho Hillary w all i had.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) December 7, 2016
Barr has been tweeting about Pizzagate recently.
ASSANGE, BREITBART WARNED US! HILLARY'S PIZZAGATE CULT and VINCE FOSTER … https://t.co/oapYwuZN6X via @YouTube
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) November 29, 2016
talk about FLIP FLOP: first Jill Stein campaigns that Trump is far better than Clinton & now she's helping Clinton? #PizzaGate #FEC
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) November 28, 2016
Y I think #PizzaGate may b a false flag: bc when offered information of worldwide pedophile trafficking, #pizzagate leaders had no interest!
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) December 5, 2016
#pizzagate pic.twitter.com/KcP39JQy3D
— Luke Sims (@Nardicus93) November 18, 2016
During her fight with King, some of Barr’s followers began tweeting support for Pizzagate, and urging King to “educate himself” about the Clinton conspiracy.
