““I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other musical artists. Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.””
That’s former President Donald Trump, who, hours earlier than Super Bowl LVIII, was targeted on famous person Taylor Swift.
Trump took to Truth Social, his most well-liked social-media platform, on Sunday afternoon, writing, “There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden,” as a substitute of “be[ing] loyal” to Trump, who he stated was “the man who made her so much money.”
For what it’s value, Swift made fairly a bit of cash earlier than Trump entered the White House. In 2016, she was named certainly one of Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities. The outlet stated that she raked in $170 million in that yr alone. She’s now value multiples of that quantity.
Read extra (from December 2023): Taylor Swift is Time’s individual of the yr. Here’s why she’s additionally been an enormous monetary story in 2023.
Trump additionally talked about the Music Modernization Act, a 2017 bipartisan effort that handed each homes unanimously.
For extra info (from October 2018): Flanked by musicians, Trump indicators music copyright invoice into regulation
Swift has additionally been in the midst of conspiracy theories from numerous conservative commentators, together with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. In brief, the speculation goes that numerous entities had been colluding with the National Football League to make sure the Kansas City Chiefs — the workforce for which Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, performs — would win, establishing a platform for Swift to endorse President Joe Biden for re-election. That principle was swatted down by two Republicans on Sunday.
“Taylor Swift is one of the great American success stories,” former candidate Chris Christie stated on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “We should be celebrating her, not having all these crazy conspiracy theories. But this is the kind of thing that Donald Trump brings about.”
Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida, stated he hoped “we can get rid of these conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift” in his clarification of why he was rooting for a San Francisco 49ers victory.