Marsha Blackburn Flips the Script And Praises Taylor Swift When Confronted About Singer Once Calling Her ‘Trump in a Wig’

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) broke with the right on Wednesday by offering some high praise for Taylor Swift amid the growing fury and rampant conspiracy theories aimed at the singer from pro-Trump media and political figures.

Blackburn joined Newsmax’s Sharla McBride and Rob Finnerty in the morning and was asked to weigh in on the MAGA vs. Swift war.

“Senator, I want to ask you about Taylor Swift. So she spends a whole lot of time in your home state of Tennessee, even though she was born in Mississippi. Newsweek had a poll yesterday that found that 18% of voters would actually vote for whoever Taylor Swift told them to vote for. In 2020, in a documentary, she said that you were ‘Donald Trump in a wig.’ How do you respond to that, and what’s your take on the impact she could have in November?” Finnerty asked.

“Taylor Swift is really a popular, very talented young woman. She has built quite an empire. I am so, so thrilled that she has chosen to base that in Nashville,” Blackburn replied, apparently unwilling to cross one of her home state’s economic engines.

“She is considered to be an influencer. I think when it comes to elections, people look at the issues that are important to them and they make their decisions. Right now, we know that the border, the open border, the Biden border policy, that is something at the top of the list for so many people. Certainly in Tennessee, the border is issue number one,” Blackburn added.

“So I got to ask, did it bother you or do her comments bother you at all when she said Trump in a wig?” pressed McBride.
“I just shake it off,” Blackburn replied to laughter.

Swift has become an obsession of right-wing media in recent months as she has been dating NFL star Travis Kelce who sparked fury on the right by cutting an ad for Pfizer. Swift has since been the target of wild conspiracy theories, including Fox News’s Jesse Watters suggesting she’s a “Pentagon asset” and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claiming the Super Bowl is rigged to boost Swift’s upcoming Biden endorsement.

Watch the clip above.