Rumours that Taylor Swift is a secret Republican have been swirling around for years now, and Donald Trump has just made reference to this while also calling Swift “unusually beautiful” in his new book “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.”
The book was co-written by Ramin Setoodeh (what, you didn’t think Trump wrote in his own, did you?), who in one section asked Trump his thoughts about Taylor Swift, to which the former US President responded:
“I think she’s beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented. I think she’s very beautiful, actually — unusually beautiful! […] She is liberal, or is that just an act? She’s legitimately liberal? It’s not an act? It surprises me that a country star can be successful being liberal.”
High praise indeed. Well, aside from questioning her integrity re her political views. I suppose it would make sense that Taylor Swift is a Republican given she’s quite openly Christian and never really talked about politics… until Donald Trump became President, that is. During the 2016 election cycle, she publicly endorsed Tennessee Democratic candidates Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives in 2018, saying the following:
“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now. I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.”
She went on to support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020, taking a pop at Trump in the wake of the George Floyd protests that same year:
“After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November.”
Taylor Swift has yet to make an endorsement for the upcoming 2024 election, which I guess makes sense given the two choices are currently her arch nemesis Trump and a geriatric who doesn’t know what day it is in Joe Biden.
Who knows, maybe Donald Trump calling her ‘beautiful’ a bunch of times will be enough to prompt Taylor Swift to come out as fully-fledged Republican? Yeah, probably not. But someone like her does have the power to sway a lot of young votes, so you can bet Biden and the Democrats will be counting on her to say something eventually.
For the time Boyzone’s Shane Lynch offered his thoughts on Taylor Swift performing ‘satanic demonic rituals’ at her concerts, click HERE. Cheers Shane.
