David Bridges
Donald Trump appears to assume he’ll get the Swifties on his facet. Or a minimum of he is making an attempt.
You would be forgiven when you missed it, however Trump posted about Taylor Swift and her legion of followers on his web site Reality Social, the place you’ll be able to usually discover the previous president ranting. Trump posted a bunch of photographs of individuals supposedly in “Swifties for Trump” shirts, writing, “I settle for!” Now, to be clear, the overwhelming majority of those “folks” have been AI-created. See for your self.
In two photographs, there gave the impression to be one actual lady sporting a Swifties for Trump shirt after which a number of AI-generated ladies that individuals claimed have been “supporting” Trump. The declare that these ladies at the moment are supporting Trump after Swift’s Vienna concert events have been canceled attributable to terror threats is pretend. The pictures and the story itself usually are not genuine. The picture Trump shared is even clearly labeled “satire.”
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So it looks like Trump is making an attempt to courtroom Swifties and Taylor Swift, which is undoubtedly a alternative. Swift herself has confirmed repeatedly that she’s not a fan of Trump. She publicly endorsed President Joe Biden and VP-turned-nominee Kamala Harris again in 2020. Whereas she hasn’t endorsed a candidate in 2024, imagining a world the place she backed Trump is sort of not possible.
Now, are there Swifties who help Trump? In fact. Swift is maybe essentially the most well-known musician on the earth. She has so many followers that there’s certain to be some overlap. That does not imply a good portion of the fandom backs Trump. It does not even imply that many of the fandom backs Harris, both. However, if something, Swifties have mobilized within the VP’s course. A coalition of followers began Swifties4Kamala, which has racked up greater than 200k followers throughout social media platforms. They plan to mobilize voters; 1000’s have already signed up for a Zoom name.
So sure, Trump seems to be courting Swifties, and no, it does not appear to be working in any respect.
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