See Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement, Trump’s response after debate
Taylor Swift took to Instagram to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Former President Donald Trump responded in the spin room.
President Donald Trump is again taking aim at pop star Taylor Swift.
The president took to right-leaning social platform Truth Social on May 16 to ask his followers: “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’”
Trump first said he hated Swift, one of the music industry’s most powerful and influential stars, in September after she endorsed his opponent — former Vice President Kamala Harris — in the 2024 presidential election.
“I hate Taylor Swift,” Trump said at the time on Truth Social, days after the singer endorsed Harris amid pressure from fans in an Instagram post to her 284 million followers immediately after the sole general election debate.
In her 2020 Netflix documentary “Miss Americana,” Swift got candid about her political leanings and also slammed the former president.
Filmed during the 2018 midterm elections, she discussed endorsing the opponent of U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, the ultra-conservative from Tennessee who she called “Trump in a wig.”
When her publicist Tree Paine tried to foresee potential PR issues for the pop star, including backlash from the Trump, Swift said “I don’t care.”
Taylor Swift has skipped mentioning Trump by name in recent years
The powerful foes have long had “Bad Blood.”
While Swift has rarely posted or mentioned Trump by name in recent years, except to point out in her endorsement that there was AI showing her “falsely endorsing Donald Trump … and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” Trump has continued to throw shade.
“Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site,” Swift wrote, referencing Trump taking to his social media platform Truth Social and posting several suspected artificial intelligence-generated images alluding to Swift and Swifties’ support for his campaign.
But in September, during a Fox News interview, Trump said that he preferred Swift’s close friend Brittany Mahomes, the Kansas City businesswoman and wife of NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Donald Trump continues to jab Taylor Swift over Super Bowl
During press interviews for Super Bowl 59, Mahomes’ teammate and Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce stoked controversy for praising Trump’s plans to attend the two-time reigning champ’s big game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
“That’s awesome. It’s a great honor,” he told reporters, according to videos posted by multiple media outlets Wednesday. “I think, you know, no matter who the president is, I know I’m excited because it’s the biggest game of my life, you know, and having the president there, you know, it’s the best country in the world. So, that’d be pretty cool.”
After attending the Super Bowl where Swift was booed by infamously rowdy Eagles fans, Trump posted a message on Truth Social, “The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”
During the Eagles’ Super Bowl celebration at the White House last month, Trump took another jab at Swift.
“I watched in person. I was there along with Taylor Swift. How did that work out?” Trump said during the April 28 celebration, drawing laughter from the crowd of Eagles fans. “How did that one work out?”
Contributing: Phillip M. Bailey, Brian Truitt, USA TODAY; Bryan West, The Nashville Tennessean
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