CNN’s morning show crew laughed at new commentary on Taylor Swift from ex-President Donald Trump, calling it “creepy” and remarking he’s “spent more time looking at her than listening.”
Trump is quoted in a new book interview obsessing over Swift’s physical appearance and painting her political views as hella sus, as the kids say.
On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt and her co-stars had a laugh over the excerpt and discussed whether Swift should wade into the election more than she already inadvertently has:
KASIE HUNT: Why wouldn’t we talk about Taylor Swift? And we can talk about Taylor Swift? She apparently has a new admirer in Donald Trump.
In an interview for a forthcoming book about the former president, Trump raved about the pop star’s looks, telling the writer, quote, “I think she’s beautiful, very beautiful. I find her very beautiful. I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very talented. I think she’s very beautiful, actually unusually beautiful.”.
Trump, however, clearly seemed, unable to forget his bad blood with Swift over her 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden and throwing into question her political beliefs.
“She is liberal. Or is that just an act?” He asked her in the interview. “She’s legitimately liberal. It’s not an act. It surprises me that a country star can be successful being liberal.”.
Okay (laughter) Meghan? (
MEGHAN HAYS: I mean, I think it’s creepy the way he continues to talk about how pretty women are that are significantly younger in age– very, very much younger!
But that being said, I think that he doesn’t want to upset the Swifties. I think we all know what happens when that, when we awake a giant of the Swifties. But, I think it’s very obvious.
KASIE HUNT: Part of why we’re talking about her and Matt. I mean, you know, disagree with me if you want to, but she is actually probably the one celebrity I think that actually has the power to move a significant number of these.
MATT GORMAN: Probably. Right. Yeah. I think it’s a matter of now whether she would ever want to get involved. I think in 2020, 2016, where I think we talked about this couple weeks ago, different time for celebrities to inject themselves into politics, become political actors.
Very different now. And I’ll tell you, Donald Trump, Taylor Swift. Like it’s like the page clicks like Big Bang, like massive forces coming together for this explosion. I vote for it. I’m all for it. But yeah.
MEGHAN HAYS: I just don’t think she needs it. Like, outwardly get involved. I don’t think she needs to go out and be like, I support Joe Biden. She already did that.
And then also in her documentary, she’s already, like said, where she stands on a lot of issues and like, went to her family and said, I mean, I don’t think anyone’s questioning where she stands politically here, but yeah, so, I mean, I think it’s kind of I don’t think she needs to outwardly get involved.
MOLLY BALL: But I think that, like Donald Trump as like a celebrity celebrity pundit. Right? Like a celebrity handicapper, he, he, he is really encapsulating sort of where she stands in like the firmament of sort of, you know, pop culture, right?
He clearly has spent more time looking at her than listening to her. She hasn’t been a country star for a long time, as my swiftie daughter could certainly tell you.
But the idea that, like, people don’t necessarily see her as a political figure. And that’s why a potential endorsement for her is so powerful, right? Because to her legions of fans who just love her no matter what the things that she says are can resonate outside that political sphere.
And that’s why I think she does have the power to potentially move voters, even though she does have this history of endorsing liberal politicians and taking liberal positions.
She is not, I think, pigeonholed as just sort of, you know, the Hollywood liberal liberal celebrity. And so she’s able to speak in an authentic way to her following.
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