J.K Rowling blasted Donald Trump by comparing the latter to the most evil character in the "Harry Potter" series. Rowling defended the Dark Lord and wrote that Trump is worse than the wizard villain.
It is said that Rowling's criticism is why people call Trump as Voldemort. Rowling tweeted, "How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad."
In the "Harry Potter" series, Lord Voldemort is a half-blood wizard who is obsessed with blood purity. He shuns non-magic folks (muggles), half-blood and muggle-born wizards. In an interview with Time, Rowling described the character as "incredibly power hungry and racist." The latter characteristic draws parallelism and comparisons between Voldemort and Trump.
Trump, in his previous outings, was accused of racism when he openly talked and stereotyped the minorities living in America.
Recently, speaking at a rally in South Carolina and talking about the recent shooting spree led by two Muslims in California last week, the business mogul made a controversial statement when he claimed that there is a "great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population" and added, "We need a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States while we figure out what the hell is going on."
Trump's polarizing statement was met with condemnation on Twitter. Rowling was not the only celebrity and political figure to criticize Trump's rumblings. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that the idea was "reprehensible, prejudiced and divisive."
One of Pakistan's most prominent human rights lawyers, Asma Jahangir, called the statement as "the worst kind of bigotry mixed with ignorance."
Despite the backlash, Trump remained defiant. He re-read the controversial statement while on board USS Yorktown and said that the statement was "very salient and important," adding that it was "probably not politically correct" but goes to say that he does not care, Independent reported.