This feels like a very foolish move. I do not know the relevant law at all, but surely it’s some kind of illegal to falsely use someone’s face to claim their political endorsement? And it’s not like Taylor Swift is somehow lacking in either the financial clout to sue over it or the PR clout to turn it around
If this fucking walloper wants to ruin his own campaign then that’s more than fine by me. I’m just surprised by what seems like such an obviously poor move
Honestly, poor political moves seem to be all the man is capable of. And his base (unfortunately) always seems to have just enough cognitive dissonance to eat it up and pivot/shift the goalposts.
More and more, I come to the conclusion that the only way forward is to stop fighting them, and instead focus on strengthening us.
The one thing MAGA republicans have in spades is a sense of unity and community, which is something we on the left need to foster (instead of infighting and segmentation).
That’s his superpower. No matter how low your opinion of him gets he can always find a way to surprise you with how shitty he can be.
From what I understand, Taylor Swift was offered big time FTX money but her parents are competent legal professionals who reviewed the contract, recognized that SBF was selling dangerous unregistered securities, and advised to stay the fuck away from that shit. I think she may have been the only celebrity who avoided that dump truck of money to protect her fans and her brand.
Not someone I’d fuck around with. (also remember when Evermore theme park tried suing lol)
All true but there is likely a portion of his base who follows nothing regarding Taylor Swift, only passively knowing who she is.
(That’s me, and I’m not part of his base. I give zero fucks about Taylor Swift. Everything I know about her is through passive acquisition.)
They’re not going to care enough about her to hear the retraction. If anything it’ll be some vague thought that even liberal star elites like their guy with no follow up.
If I was an attorney for Taylor Swift, I might argue that the campaign needs to have their assets frozen because who knows what other fraudulent or illegal activity the campaign could be engaging in. Guys like trump do this type of thing because their expectation is that they’ll get away with it.
The images. Trump is pathetic.
And as we all know… Swifties sure love commenting on Truth Social.
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This dude is just so, so desperate. Future historians will have to go through all this garbage.
Hey, I was in a hipster coffee shop in Brooklyn the other day and everyone was talking about how much the swifties were abandoning TikTok and Instagram for Truth Social in droves
This is exactly what bullshit like Grok is here for. Stupid easy to make, stupid easy to spread. Why try any harder when your target is stupid people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any “trump for Harris” generated images yet in this thread. Maybe with a news article about Trump finding Trump’s VP pick weird and how he can’t stand Trump rambling about Trump, low energy, something something.
The uncle Sam image is clearly AI, but the pictures with people in “Swifties for Trump” shirts look real. But there is a “satire” tag on one of them…
Either he believes the images are real, or he knows they are fake and is trying to meme a little. Either way he is a moron. If this forces Taylor’s hand to either disavow Trump or just straight endorse Harris, he’s cooked.
The blonde girl with a ponytail in the top right and bottom right look like real photos from a rally. The other photos of groups of people with the “Swifties for Trump” shirts all have the plastic sheen and soft background that’s indicative of AI. If you start zooming in there are little oddities here and there that also make them look generated.
So I’ll buy there is one girl out there with her own shirt who got photographed twice at the same event, but I don’t believe any of these other photos for a second.
Another lawsuit to take away the last of the money he might have. He’s clearly burning all bridges and preparing to bug off to Russia, NK, or Chyyyyna.
My money’s on Saudi Arabia. Prince Bonesaw is a golf buddy of his, and doesn’t he have a Trump Tower in Riyadh?
Using AI to take away a woman’s agency and force an image of her to do what you want?
Trump feels free to do it and to do it publicly. It’s weird as all hell.
This is hilarious he is going to force a Swift - Harris endorsement where she might have remained silent
Exactly this. If Taylor swift gets the swifties to the polls it’s game over.
And he might get sued as well which would be the cherry on top