Turns out Donald Trump is scared of Taylor Swift.
Never one to overlook a ham-handed try to make something about himself, the previous president and nearly sure 2024 GOP nominee took to his Truth Social simply hours earlier than the Super Bowl. In a swerving missive designed to garner most consideration and distract from his different woes, Trump tried to taunt Swift, slag Joe Biden and even take a swipe at Kansas City Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce.
“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,” Trump mentioned with a reference to not solely his White House rival however the Music Modernization Act of 2018. “Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can’t stand me!”
As has been effectively reported, Swift flew again from her live performance run in Tokyo to LA yesterday and is claimed to be on her option to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl proper now. Coming off a season of NFL rankings spikes as a result of Swift at Chiefs video games, Sunday’s look in a non-public field has attracted far more consideration than half time act Usher or nearly the rest associated to the Super Bowl.
Denigrating folks has lengthy been the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host’s stock-in-trade, however whereas Trump has lengthy captured the political energy of America’s obsession with superstar, it’s uncommon for him to throw in precise laws like MMA. Trump signed the lengthy festering regulation in October 2018 with buddies Kid Rock and the Beach Boys’ Mike Love by his aspect. Intended to streamline income from royalties and easy out copyright points for artists from now dominate digital platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, the MMA additionally severely restricted the businesses’ legal responsibility on any unpaid royalties and extra to violations that occurred after January 1, 2018.
Truth be advised, with the large quantity of streams that Swift’s music has had on digital music platforms, she has been one of many few artists to obtain hefty sums from Spotify and Apple Music. Using the previous for example, Swift, who’s paid as performer and a songwriter, is estimated to have earned round $100 million from Spotify final 12 months. A giant a part of that has to come back from the spillover impact of Swift’s $1 billion and extra incomes Eras Tour, to not point out 2022’s hit Midnights album and 2023’s rerecord releases Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
With MAGA conspiracies galore swirling round Swift’s anticipated presence on the Super Bowl to assist Kelce and the Chiefs in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers, Trump clearly needs to get out entrance of any repeated of the songstress’ 2020 endorsement of Biden. Polls have Biden v. trump 2.0 at a statistical tie seven months earlier than the election. A state of affairs that might shift dramatically if Taylor unleashed her military of Swifts for the incumbent – a hypothetical the White House is as conscious of as Trump is.
So, 2024 (Taylor’s Version) …recreation on!