X community notes confirm footage of Taylor Swift holding ‘Trump Won, Democrat Cheated’ banner is fake.
A video spreading online appears to show Taylor Swift holding a banner at the 66th annual Grammy Awards that falsely claims former US president Donald Trump won the 2020 election. But the footage is doctored; the original clip from entertainment magazine Variety depicts the pop star wearing black gloves and holding no such sign.
“AWWW… THANK YOU!!!” says a February 4, 2024 post on X, formerly Twitter, from an account called “il Donaldo Trumpo.”
The clip appears to show Swift holding a red sign that says: “TRUMP WON. DEMOCRATS CHEATED!” The popular pro-Trump page also posted the video to Telegram and Rumble.
To complicate matters even more, Swift is dating pro football player Travis Kelce, who’s previously done ads to promote the covid-19 vaccines. Kelce’s promotion of basic public health messages has sent conspiracy theorists into a tizzy, given their belief the covid-19 vaccines actually harmed people. There’s no evidence the covid-19 vaccines are harmful and are widely understood by the mainstream scientific community to have saved countless lives.
The Super Bowl is this coming weekend, which means the conspiracy theories and manipulated videos involving Swift are probably going to become even more common. But all we can say with certainty for now is that Swift never held up a flag promoting Donald Trump. And unless her political views have changed dramatically in the past four years, she’s unlikely to do that anytime soon.
Swift has become an unexpected political lightning rod in recent months. Swift first endorsed Joe Biden for president in the lead up to the 2020 election, though the musician has previously said she tries not to overshare her political views.
But conservative media outlets like Fox News have focused their attention on Swift recently, with some pundits like Jesse Waters even claiming the pop superstar is part of a “psyop” orchestrated by the U.S. intelligence agencies. The baseless conspiracy theory insists organizations like the CIA are using Swift to indoctrinate kids into voting for Democrats.
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