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He might not know the song but Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump affirmed the Taylor Swift lyric “haters gonna hate” on Sunday.
This follows the pop star’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday after the debate. Her post has so far driven over 400,000 people to the Vote.gov website.
Trump’s post contrasts his statement on Wednesday in an interview with “Fox and Friends” where he was far more detached from Swift’s stance, saying that he liked “Mrs. Mahomes much better,” referencing Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, who is a known Trump supporter.
“I was not a Taylor Swift fan, it was just a question of time,” Trump said in the interview. “She’s a very liberal person, she seems to always endorse a Democrat and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”
Trump and his campaign have also previously used Swift as a marketing ploy, selling Eras Tour inspired T-shirts and posting fake, AI-generated images of her endorsing Trump to Truth Social. She referenced the fake endorsement as a reason to be transparent about her voting plans.
Social media sites like X are buzzing with responses to Trump’s statement, garnering the attention of politicians and Swifties alike.
Tim Walz posted on X, “Swifites: With your help, we’re gonna defeat the smallest man who ever lived,” referencing a Swift song.
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney similarly captioned a screenshot of the post, “Says the smallest man who ever lived.” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg also posted on X, writing, “Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor! Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring.”
Swifties For Kamala, an X account dedicated to mobilizing Swift fans to vote for Democrats, responded to Trump’s post with a mock news brief. The statement was followed by a call to donate to the Harris-Walz campaign.
Other fans are slamming the former president on X for posting something that could potentially lose him a great deal of support.
Some are even speculating that the incendiary post is a distraction from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s moment on CNN on Sunday morning when host Dana Bash challenged him after he claimed that he and Trump have to create stories about migrants to get the media to pay attention “to the suffering of the American people.”
