Asked to react to Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump heaped praise on the singer’s friend Brittany Mahomes as a “big MAGA fan,” claimed he was never a fan of Swift’s, and criticized President Joe Biden.
“I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better, if you want to know the truth. She’s a big Trump fan,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy on Wednesday morning. “I was not a Taylor Swift fan. It was just a question of time. She couldn’t, you couldn’t possibly endorse Biden. You look at Biden, you couldn’t possibly endorse him.”
“But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace,” he said.
He added that Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, is “a big MAGA fan.”
“That’s the one I like much better than Taylor Swift,” he said.
Representatives of Swift and Mahomes did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.
Everything Trump said is dubious. Brittany Mahomes has not publicly stated her support for the Republican nominee. She recently “liked” one of his controversial posts on Instagram, and then “unliked” it following backlash.
Swift endorsed Biden in 2020 and has only gotten more rich and famous since.
Trump’s statement that he’s not a fan is also suspect. In fact, it seems like he’s been pretty interested in what she has to say — he’s brought up her coveted endorsement repeatedly during his 2024 campaign, and even shared artificial intelligence-generated images purporting to show “Swifties for Trump.”
According to recorded interviews with Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, Trump once gushed that the pop superstar is “unusually beautiful” and “talented” with “great star quality,” and wondered if she’s only pretending to be a liberal.
Setoodeh, who interviewed the former president at length for a book, said earlier this year that Trump is “absolutely fixated” on Swift because he sees fame as “one of the most valuable currencies in life.”
“And so Taylor Swift being one of the most famous people on the planet, and not endorsing him, is something that really matters to him,” the author said.
Swift landed in hot water with some fans over the weekend after she was seen in a friendly embrace with Brittany Mahomes at the U.S. Open.
Swift, whose boyfriend Travis Kelce also plays for the Kansas City Chiefs, had already caught flak for remaining silent during the deeply consequential 2024 race. She endorsed Harris immediately after Tuesday night’s presidential debate.