Republicans are reportedly trying to make ‘Donald Trump popular again’.
The race towards the White House has taken a strange turn, with a source in Donald Trump‘s camp claiming he was upset Time Magazine didn’t name him Person of the Year. Apparently, an individual close to the running candidate, said he felt it was “obviously” nonsensical he lost the achievement to Taylor Swift.
It comes after reports from The New York Times that aides to President Biden are hoping to get Swift on board as a campaign surrogate, to cash in on her huge influence. But the singer herself has not endorsed any candidates.
After the news, sources tell Rolling Stone, allies of the former President of the United States are preparing for a “holy war” against the songmaker if she did side with the Democrat. Three individual insiders on the other side, claim Biden’s campaign is assuming Swift will back him, as she did four years ago.
But the outlet reports Trump doesn’t feel this will affect his hopes of returning to POTUS status. The insider claims he feels he’s “more popular” than the Grammy-Award-winning star, and his fans are more committed than certified Swifties.
He reportedly said last month Time should have declared him as their profile for Person of the Year, instead of the celebrity.
“Joe Biden might be counting on Taylor Swift to save him, but voters are looking at these sky-high inflation rates and saying, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,’” Trump adviser Jason Miller said in a statement. He famously quoted the title of a 2012 Swift song.
There’s been some tension between Trump and Swift over the years.
In 2018, after the singer, who is now dating NFL tight end Travis Kelce, endorsed two Democrats in her home state of Tennessee, Trump retorted he likes her music “about 25 per cent less now”.
The following year, Taylor Swift said she believed his time as head of state was an ‘autocracy’. she told The Guardian: “We’re a democracy – at least, we’re supposed to be – where you’re allowed to disagree, dissent, debate. I really think that he thinks this is an autocracy.”
Then, in 2020, the 34-year-old accused the President at the time of attempting to “blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk”, when his administration tried to limit mail-in voting in the middle of the pandemic.
Someone inside Trump’s campaign told the magazine if Swift backed Biden, it would “be more fuel thrown onto the culture-war fires”
“Another left-wing celebrity who is part of the Democrat elite telling you what to think”.
It comes after a Democrat and Trump supporter took to Twitter to ask if a deepfake photo of Taylor Swift pretending to support Trump was real. But it was quickly proven not to be.
