Watch Late-Night Hosts Remind Donald Trump He’s Not More Popular Than Taylor Swift
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Donald Trump recently claimed that he’s more popular than Taylor Swift, but several late-night TV hosts would beg to differ. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and more took aim at Trump with some poignant reminders that Swift is exceptionally popular.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel told Republicans to “enjoy her music while you still can” before MAGA followers declare a “fatwa” on Swift. Referring to Trump as “Don-ye West,” Kimmel noted, “If Taylor Swift told her fans to storm the capital on January 6th they would have succeeded. They would be running the country right now.”
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After reminding Trump that Swift is popular all over the world, even in cities no one has ever heard of, he added, “The truth is you’re not even the most popular Donald — there’s still a cartoon duck with a speech impediment and no pants on.”
On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon quipped “I’m not sure Trump has more committed fans, but he definitely has more fans who have been committed.”
Meanwhile on The Late Show, Colbert called Trump’s claims that his fans are more committed than Swift’s “insane.” “Can you imagine Trump selling out stadiums in Tokyo?” Colbert asked before mimicking the former president’s potential interaction with the Japanese people. He added, “To be fair, in the last three years about 500 of his fans have been committed to jail.”
Seth Meyers reminded viewers that you can’t manufacture the kind of popularity Swift has. “Otherwise,” he said. “Joe Biden would be onstage at SoFi Stadium in front of 70,000 people telling a long story about Amtrak.”
As Rolling Stone reported earlier this week, Swift hasn’t even endorsed Biden for reelection, but that hasn’t stopped members of MAGAland’s upper crust from plotting to declare — as one source close to Donald Trump calls it — a “holy war” on the pop megastar, especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.
According to three people familiar with the matter, Trump loyalists working on or close to the former president’s campaign, longtime Trump allies in right-wing media, and an array of outside advisers to the ex-president have long taken it as a given that Swift will eventually endorse Biden (as she did in 2020). Indeed, several of these Republicans and conservative media figures have discussed the matter with Trump over the past few months, the sources say.
Swift blasted Trump during the 2020 election, accusing him of trying to “blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk” following the Trump administration’s efforts to hinder mail-in voting amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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