Donald Trump referred to as into Fox & Buddies earlier than 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning (Sept. 11) to speak about Tuesday evening’s (Sept. 10) debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, and whereas the hosts listened as he gave his spin on how he did in what stands out as the solely time he faces off in opposition to his Democratic opponent, essentially the most burning query was apparent.
What did Trump consider Taylor Swift‘s enthusiastic endorsement of Harris within the moments after the controversy ended?
“Properly, I really like, uh… Mrs., uh [laughs] I really like Mrs. Mahomes a lot better if you wish to know the reality. She’s a giant Trump fan,” Trump stated, in seeming reference to Brittany Mahomes, spouse of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas Metropolis Present co-owner and former soccer participant who was swept into Swift’s orbit final 12 months when the singer started courting Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce.
“I used to be not a Taylor swift fan, it was only a query of time. She couldn’t, uh, you couldn’t presumably endorse Biden. You take a look at Biden you couldn’t presumably endorse him,” Trump continued through the interview through which he described Brittany as “the spouse of the good quarterback.”
“However she’s [Swift] a really liberal individual, she appears to all the time endorse a democrat and she or he’ll most likely pay a worth for it within the market,” Trump continued of the star who’s about to wrap up her sold-out Eras Tour, which is on observe to be one of many highest-grossing excursions in music historical past. “However no, I like Brittany, I believe Brittany’s nice. Brittany obtained plenty of information final week she’s a giant MAGA fan, that’s the one I like a lot better than Taylor Swift.”
Up till final week, the ladies had been often seen passionately cheering on their important others from luxurious packing containers throughout the nation on recreation day. Nonetheless, it appeared they had been at a distance from one another throughout final Thursday’s Chiefs season kick-off, per week after Brittany Mahomes drew criticism for showing to love a Trump Instagram submit outlining his celebration’s 2024 platform.
Convicted felon Trump shortly thanked Mahomes for her obvious help, writing on his Fact Social platform, “I wish to thank stunning Brittany Mahomes for thus strongly defending me, and the truth that MAGA is the best and strongest Political Motion within the Historical past of our now Failing Nation.”
Mahomes later responded to criticism of her like by saying in an Instagram Story, writing, “I imply truthfully, To be a hater as an grownup, it’s important to have some deep rooted points you refuse to heal from childhood. There’s no motive your mind is totally developed and also you hate to see others doing nicely.”
Regardless of what gave the impression to be a chill within the friendship, simply days later, the 2 girls had been noticed hugging it out on the U.S. Open on Sunday, seemingly dousing rumors of a rift.
Trump, who insisted to the Fox & Buddies crew that he decisively received the controversy, calling it “my finest debate, really,” was broadly criticized by media pundits for his typically rambling, imprecise solutions through the tense, 90-minute showdown through which he often talked over the moderators. Whereas Harris repeatedly pushed again on what she described as Trump’s “usual drained playbook” of lies and obfuscations, many pundits zeroed in on the twice-impeached former President’s false declare that Haitian immigrants are “consuming canines.. consuming the cats,” an web rumor that that debate co-moderator David Muir swiftly fact-checked in actual time.
The weird, debunked rumor had been amplified a day earlier by Trump’s VP choose, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who feline fan Swift took a playful swipe at in her Harris endorsement by signing off as a “childless cat woman.” The latter was a reference to one in every of Vance’s controversial 2021 claims that Democrats had been selling an “antifamily” agenda led by “a bunch of childless cat women who’re depressing at their very own lives and the alternatives that they’ve made and they also wish to make the remainder of the nation depressing, too.”
Earlier than Tuesday evening, Swift had not endorsed a candidate but within the 2024 presidential election, regardless of backing the 2020 ticket of President Joe Biden and Harris after a profession through which she largely averted weighing in on politics till Trump entered the White Home in 2016. In her assertion, the singer stated her endorsement was pushed, partly, by a false AI-generated picture purporting to point out her endorsing Trump that the previous one-term president shared on his social feeds final month.
“It actually conjured up my fears round AI and the hazards of spreading misinformation,” she wrote. “The best technique to fight misinformation is with the reality. I will likely be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I consider want a warrior to champion them. I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I consider we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.”
