Pop sensation Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ within the wake of her resounding debate victory final Tuesday.
A sensible opposing candidate may preserve his mouth shut. He may provide platitudes to Swift’s large fan base to restrict the harm. He may even reward Swift to attenuate the prospect she turns a single endorsement put up right into a sustained marketing campaign over the closing two months.
Donald Trump isn’t sensible. His supporters are even worse.
Odds are good you’ve already seen Trump’s Sunday put up on his Fact Social:
So sure, a 78-year-old man working for president screamed “I hate Taylor Swift.” Not solely was this pure idiocy on each possible stage, making him appear smaller and fewer secure than ever, with zero impulse management, it marked the first time he’d ever attacked somebody and not using a tiresome screaming all-caps screed explaining why he hates that individual or group. This was white-hot rage at a lady who’s an precise billionaire, and truly self-made, and truly beloved. And it was a name to his most devoted and unstable followers to hurt her, as a result of it’s clear many reply to his declarations of enemies as a name to arms.
This was the identical man that, only a month in the past, gleefully accepted the pretend endorsement of a pretend AI Swift endorsement.
However it’s not simply Trump shedding his thoughts. There was Russian-financed propagandist Dave Rubin threatening her with rape from Venezuelan gang members, and Elon Musk’s weird and creepy provide to impregnate Swift and “protect” her cats. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz mentioned that he wished “to live in a world where liberals make my art and conservatives make my laws.” (Good of him to confess conservatives make shitty artwork.)
“Notice: should you vote for a selected candidate as a result of your favourite singer is doing so, please do not vote. You’re too silly to vote, “ tweeted conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, whereas pretending he wasn’t all excited about washed-up former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan on the Republican Nationwide Conference, and his occasion isn’t all enthusiastic about Child Rock and … I nonetheless snicker at this … actor Kevin Sorbo.
“I’m allowed to criticize Taylor Swift, and I don’t give a shit who gets upset. This is disgusting,” Megyn Kelly mentioned on her YouTube present, earlier than going off on a transphobic screed. “If she wants to vote Harris-Walz, she can do it all she wants but to say the reason she is doing it is because of Tim Walz’s stance on LGBTQ? F you, Taylor Swift. And F all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off and watch them sterilized under the age of consent and then will ride off to their multi-gazillion-dollar mansions.”
Simply as obscene was this put up by a Trump fan account with over 200,000 followers on X:
The substance of the tweet was bullshit, in fact. No, Swift hadn’t misplaced any cash from her endorsement. It was an utter fabrication. However what was worse was the image used.
In 2012, Swift wrote a track about three-year-old Ronan who died of most cancers after she learn a weblog put up by his mom, Maya Thompson. She was moved to tears the primary time she carried out it, therefore the photograph. A distressed Thompson tweeted that she was going to “throw up,” and added that she felt “so violated; this moment is sacred to me.”
That Trump account ultimately took the put up down.
Trump’s working mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, was his common ineffective self final Wednesday on Fox Information. “I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music or are fans of hers or not, are gonna be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,” he mentioned, unironically describing Trump himself.
The hysterical conservative response betrays their absolute panic, and it’s warranted.
