Donald Trump took to his online platform Truth Social to share images of women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts, plus one of the singer herself dressed as Uncle Sam to urge fans: “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump“.
However, there’s one catch – almost all of the images published are believed to be “deep fakes”, created by artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has a history of publicly supporting Democratic candidates, making it all the less likely that she’s backing Trump.
Yet when he reposted the images, he wrote: “I accept”, implying that he is proud of her “support”. Now a source has told the Daily Mail: “If she didn’t support him last time, she’s not going to support him now. He’s clearly lost it. In more ways than one.”
However, Trump recently shared another video by one of his fans suggesting that Swifties had been “waking up” after the reports of a terrorist attack led to the Austrian leg of her Eras tour being called off. Taylor had previously hit out at Trump publicly on Twitter, suggesting she had been “completely blindsided” after he claimed power in 2017.
She wrote: “After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump.” Taylor also hit out at his handling of USPS funds, claiming: “He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president.”
In a subsequent post, she blasted his “ineffective leadership”, suggesting that he could “take advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely”.
She called upon her fans to request a ballot form and “vote early”, prompting a spike in voter registrations.
The book Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass quoted Trump admiring the “unusually beautiful” star.
However, the quotes also saw him allegedly acknowledge that she “probably doesn’t like” him due to her liberal leanings.
He added: “It surprises me that a country star can be successful being liberal.”
Meanwhile, in 2020 Taylor publicly registered her support for Joe Biden and his team.
“I will proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election,’ she stated.
“Under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.”
