Last week, President Trump, took a few minutes of his busy schedule, while he was touring in the Middle East, to contemplate on the hotness of Taylor Swift.
Forget tariff, global conflict, or the fight to get rid of illegal immigrants. The real headline is: Taylor Swift has apparently lost her hotness. And not by a complex formula, cultural shift, or evolving taste… no, by a presidential decree.
“Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT’?”
—Donald J. Trump, Commander-in-Chief of Cold Takes
Now, before Swifties storm Mar-a-Lago armed with glitter and friendship bracelets, let’s pause. Bill Maher’s panel recently took a swing at interpreting this declaration. Bill thought Trump meant “hot in the business.” Political analyst Peter Hamby assumed it was a jab at her looks. And Scott Jennings, the voice of logic in a fever dream, said Trump might’ve felt emboldened when she got booed at the Super Bowl.
Let’s be honest, though. I think Taylor Swift is very hot, looks wise, as far as her music, it’s not for me, but Eras Tour has grossed over a billion dollars and I think she is still hot in the eyes of her fans.
But let’s indulge this theory.
Maybe she lost some of her hotness because she endorsed Kamala Harris, the socialist presidential candidate who could have ruined the country.
Maher’s guest Hamby noted that her approval ratings with Republicans dropped faster than my patience for political analysis of pop stars.
In other words, Republicans don’t like when musicians dabble in politics—unless, of course, that musician is Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, or a bald eagle with a guitar.
At the White House press briefing, a journalist asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to clarify what the President meant by “not hot.” And God bless her, she laughed, shook her head, and said:
“Look, he is speaking about Taylor Swift’s political views and how perhaps it has impacted the support of the American public for her work. And I will leave it at that.”
Translation: “I’m not touching this with a ten-foot selfie stick.”
The way I see it, in a country as evenly divided politically as the U.S. every time an artist endorses one person or the other, they risk isolating half of the population and that is not good business.
However, there’s something beautiful here. In a world teetering on the edge, we can still gather ’round and argue about whether a pop star is “hot” because the president said so on social media. That, my friends, is democracy in action.
In conclusion, while the president is busy solving the world’s biggest problems, he still has time share his cultural opinion with us, and that makes him more relatable.
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