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SHOCKING NEWS: Is it over now? Swifties react after Donald Trump posts ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT’
Picture this: It’s the weekend and you’re a 78-year-old man running for the highest elected office in the country. National polls suggest there’s an almost razor-thin margin of popularity separating you and your opponent after a debate that didn’t exactly go in your favor. How do you drum up more support?
Do you hold another fundraiser? Release a detailed, more comprehensive plan for healthcare? Or do you pick a fight with arguably the world’s most popular music idol and her legions of devoted fans?
If you’re Donald Trump, you write all in caps, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” and let the social media comments fly where they may — and fly they did.
The former president and current Republican nominee’s bad blood with Swift appears to have boiled over days after she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the 2024 presidential election.
On Sunday, Trump posted “I hate Taylor Swift,” to his 7.71 million followers on his social media website, Truth Social. His remark came less than a week after the pop star voiced her support for Harris in an Instagram post to her 284 million followers, signing it, ‘Childless Cat Lady’ in a dig to JD Vance, Trump’s running mate.
Swift called Harris a “steady-handed, gifted leader” who would fight for the causes she believed in, and encouraged her millions of followers to register to vote.
Trump, whose campaign only recently began selling t-shirts with a similar aesthetic as the Taylor Swift Eras Tour merchandise, appears to be over it now. Swift’s fans, however, might not be. Here’s what’s being said on social media.