By breakfast time, Swift’s Instagram publish, that includes a shot from her TIME Individual of the 12 months shoot of her cuddling as much as the one and solely Benjamin Button (the cat, not Brad Pitt in prosthetics), had racked up greater than 8.7 million likes and counting. Conservatives had additionally had time to have their say, together with Elon Musk tweeting an aggressively creepy “supply” to “provide you with a toddler and guard your cats with my life,” which, ew, and Trump calling in to Fox & Friends Wednesday to principally paraphrase the bridge from “We Are By no means Getting Again Collectively” and saying he all the time preferred Brittany Mahomes higher than Taylor anyway, so there. He doesn’t even need her endorsement, okay? Though he has stated a number of occasions previously that he did, and even used AI-generated photos to fake that she endorsed him, he doesn’t. Nyah nyah, and so forth and so forth.
“Nicely, I really like Mrs. Mahomes significantly better, if you wish to know the reality,” Trump stated when requested about Swift having her say. “She’s an enormous Trump fan. I used to be not a Taylor Swift fan. It was solely a matter of time. You couldn’t probably endorse Biden. However she’s a really liberal individual. She appears to all the time endorse a Democrat and she or he’ll in all probability pay a value for it within the market. However I like Brittany. Brittany is nice. She’s the one I like significantly better than Taylor Swift. Spouse of the nice quarterback. I feel she’s terrific.”
Representatives for Brittany Mahomes didn’t reply to Self-importance Honest’s request for remark.
The Swifties for Kamala political organizing group, which isn’t formally affiliated with Swift and has stated they didn’t really feel they wanted to attend for an official endorsement from Swift to get shifting, predicted in a press launch that “that influence is barely going to develop due to Taylor’s endorsement.” Co-founder and government director Irene Kim stated, “We knew she would converse when the time was proper and are so excited to maintain up the combat.”
The group stated it has greater than 3,500 energetic volunteers, and has raised greater than $158,000 for Harris’s marketing campaign. The group’s kickoff name featured audio system resembling Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand, with music icon Carole King performing an impromptu snippet of Swift’s “Shake It Off.”
Child, let the video games start, certainly.
