David Bridges
Donald Trump is making headlines once more, this time for involving Taylor Swift’s followers, aka Swifties, in his political marketing campaign.
The 78-year-old politician appeared to make use of synthetic intelligence to draw extra consideration. In a put up shared on Fact Social on Sunday, August 18, he posted a number of photos of girls sporting shirts that learn “Swifties for Trump,” together with a photoshopped image of Uncle Sam that includes the 34-year-old singer’s face and the caption “Taylor desires you to vote for Donald Trump.” Trump responded to the photographs by writing, “I settle for!”
Though the “Karma” singer has not made any public remark about this, her followers rapidly got here to her protection. On X (previously Twitter), one consumer wrote, “Taylor Swift ought to sue him.” One other fan chimed in to Trump’s transfer by sharing a tweet from the pop star in 2020, the place she criticized his presidency, saying, “After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your whole presidency, you could have the nerve to feign ethical superiority earlier than threatening violence? ‘When the looting begins the capturing begins’??? We’ll vote you out in November.”
lemme depart this right here. pic.twitter.com/0V5fMJw480
— ⋆ ᵀᴬᴱ ⋆ (@hardtingz) August 19, 2024
One other consumer added, “This feels… unlawful!”
On the identical day, Trump additionally shared a video on the platform that includes a lady discussing a latest scenario at Taylor Swift’s Vienna present, the place there have been tried terror assaults. The lady claimed, “I by no means thought I’d see the day that Swifties had been rallying for Trump… I assume one thing with ISIS occurred. There’s a whole lot of terrorism occurring. I assume she needed to shut down exhibits due to it, and a whole lot of them are simply saying, ‘, if Trump was in workplace, this could have by no means ever occurred.’”
Whereas Taylor Swift has not publicly declared her political allegiance on this election, it was beforehand talked about in a guide titled Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America By the Wanting Glass that Trump had commented, “She’s lovely—very lovely! I discover her very lovely. I feel she’s liberal. She most likely doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very proficient… I feel she’s very lovely, really—unusually lovely!”
Trump’s put up comes shortly after he agreed to face his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, in a presidential debate on September 10 on ABC. He agreed to a few debates, whereas the present Vice President agreed to 2 presidential debates and one vice presidential dialogue.
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