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The History of Trump’s Obsession With Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift has been living rent-free in Donald Trump’s mind since 2018
Donald Trump’s attacks on women aren’t new, but if there’s one person he loves to target — even though she’s not a politician — it’s Taylor Swift.
The dispute between the current president of the United States and the so-called music industry began with Trump as an open admirer of Swift until the singer spoke out about her views on politics, which are the opposite of his.
The evolution of Swift’s political engagement
In 2018, Swift publicly endorsed Democrats in the midterm elections, criticizing Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn, whom she called “” during her documentary released on Netflix, Miss Americana.
“I wanna wear pink and tell you how I feel about politics (…) I need to be on the right side of history,” she said in . That statement was a major change from a 2012 interview in which she confessed why she wasn’t open about her political leanings.
“I just figure I’m a 22-year-old singer and I don’t know if people really want to hear my political views. I think they just kind of want to hear me sing songs about breakups and feelings” —…
