Taylor Swift is supporting Donald Trump’s latest bid for the White House, at least according to the former president.
Openly obsessed with the superstar artist, Trump took to his Truth Social on Sunday to claim Swift’s support.
In response to Swift’s unexpected endorsement, Trump said, “I accept.” Trump may like the idea of Swift’s support, but, as with many candidates who are falling in the polls, the candidate’s long-sought support Department of Tortured Poets the singer is pure fiction.
While a photo of the ex-Celebrity Apprentice The radio host’s article showing a teenage girl wearing an apparently homemade “Swifties for Trump” T-shirt is true, but the article claiming that Swift’s fans are turning to Trump after the terrorist threats that led to the cancellation of the singer’s concerts in Vienna, Austria, in early August is not true. In fact, the computer-generated images on the original feed from conservative news outlet Amuse openly label the post “satire.”
Additionally, a depiction of Swift dressed as Uncle Sam and telling Americans to vote for the GOP candidate is just AI and pure disinformation:
In a statement to Deadline about Trump’s posts, the former president’s campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung said, “Swifties for Trump is a massive movement that is growing every day.” Swift, who is in the final leg of the European leg of her Eras Tour, has not commented on Trump’s posts. The singer continues her appearance at Wembley Stadium in London tonight and on August 20.
Swift, who was baking cookies, was a supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the COVID-19-affected 2020 election.
This time around, Swift hasn’t thrown her support behind the president, who ended his reelection campaign on July 21, or the vice president’s burgeoning campaign. Still, as Swifties’ fanbase for Kamala sees their numbers soar and Swift-inspired friendship bracelets are created for the Democratic convention in Chicago this week, hopes spring eternal that the billionaire artist will soon put her guitar-playing finger back on the political scale for Democrats — especially since the vice president’s numbers narrowly edge Trump in what has been a dramatic but still very close race.
With that in mind, there have been plenty of speculation and rumors that Swift would take advantage of a break in her tour to hop on a plane to perform or simply appear at the final night of the DNC on August 22. However, like the image of a backup singer from one of Swift’s recent concerts in Warsaw, Poland, which appeared to show a swaying silhouette of Harris, a visit to the Windy City for the DNC by the singer is likely more fantasy than reality.
As Trump’s desire to endorse Swift and the Swifties resurfaced this weekend, the scope of misinformation swirling around the 2024 election is growing. Just as Trump posted a fake endorsement of Swift this past weekend, he also posted an AI-generated image of Vice President Harris giving a speech with the hammer-and-sickle communist flag hanging in a Chicago arena and an audience of Maoists standing at attention in front of her.
In this fiction about Harris’ ideological leanings, Trump was joined by the group belonging to Rupert Murdoch. The New York Post. After the vice president gave a speech last week outlining her economic proposals, including price-gouging controls in supermarkets and more affordable housing incentives, the tabloid lambasted her with a front-page headline reading “KAMUNISM.” The accompanying image showed the vice president at a lectern with a hammer and sickle emblem on it instead of the seal of her office.
Harris will deliver a real speech with the real emblem of her office on August 22, the final night of the DNC. Democrats’ return to Chicago, expected to endure counterprogramming attempts by Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), begins today with a keynote address by President Biden and an expected tribute, full of tears and voices, to the outgoing commander in chief.
