Former President Donald Trump has aroused the ire of some Swifties in a key swing state.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that some local fans of Taylor Swift are not happy about Trump posting a fake AI-generated endorsement suggesting that the pop music icon has endorsed his 2024 campaign.
Swift has not yet made an endorsement in the 2024 race, although she backed President Joe Biden in the 2020 election and it's widely expected that she will encourage her followers to back Vice President Kamala Harris at some point in the next few weeks.
Given this, 23-year-old Swift fan Marissa Slattery told the Inquirer that she was dismayed by Trump's audacity.
“It’s kind of just more like infuriating than anything else, because people that are fans of her know that it’s not true, but people that don’t know much about her and see him posting that would just take it at face value,” she said.
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22-year-old Swift fan Caroline Macaluso, meanwhile, believed that Trump was playing with fire by falsely claiming Swift's endorsement.
"Does he think that nothing’s gonna happen?” she asked. “I mean, Taylor has very, very publicly endorsed registering to vote and always making sure that you’re ready to vote, and during the 2020 election was publicly endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris."
She also added that “Swifties are a force to be reckoned with" and could tip the election against Trump this fall.
Swift in 2020 strongly denounced Trump's reaction to the protests against the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and accused him of being a racial arsonist.
"After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence?" she wrote on Twitter. "‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November."
