{"id":188114,"date":"2018-10-09T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/10\/09\/trump-likes-taylor-swift-25-less-after-political-post\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:53:05","slug":"trump-likes-taylor-swift-25-less-after-political-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/09\/trump-likes-taylor-swift-25-less-after-political-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018likes Taylor Swift 25% less\u2019 after political post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Taylor Swift’s endorsement of two Democrats for the US mid-term elections has sparked a huge response – including from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump has told reporters he likes “Taylor’s music about 25% less now”.<\/div>\n
The singer-songwriter, 28, had previously deliberately steered clear of politics but said events in “the past two years” had changed her mind.<\/div>\n
Her latest comments were praised by many but also sparked a fierce backlash from Republican supporters.<\/div>\n
Swift broke her silence on politics on Sunday, publicly endorsing two Democrats in Tennessee, her home state, in a post on Instagram, where she has 112m followers.<\/div>\n
“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” she wrote.<\/div>\n
A Buzzfeed News report quotes Vote.org’s Kamari Guthrie, who says the site has seen a “registrations spike specifically since [her] post” in Tennessee, and also a bump in voter registration nationwide.<\/div>\n
Swift particularly criticised Republican Senate nominee Marsha Blackburn for her voting record on gender equality.<\/div>\n
“Her voting record in Congress appals and terrifies me,” she wrote, citing the politician’s votes against equal pay and domestic violence legislation.<\/div>\n
Speaking on Monday, Trump said  Blackburn was “doing a very good job” in Swift’s home state.<\/div>\n
“She’s a tremendous woman,” he said. “I’m sure Taylor Swift doesn’t know anything about her.”<\/div>\n
In previous tweets posted in 2012, the US President had described Swift as “fantastic” and “terrific”, and had thanked her for taking a picture with him.<\/div>\n
Swift’s post has been “liked” more than 1.6m times since she shared it on Sunday, including by model Chrissy Teigen, singer Katy Perry and actress Reese Witherspoon.<\/div>\n
However, she has attracted criticism from conservative commentators and Republicans.<\/div>\n
“What I used to love about Taylor Swift is she stayed away from politics,” Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student organisation Turning Point, told Fox News on Monday.<\/div>\n
Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Committee criticised her “attitude”, and said Swift had “[come] down from her ivory tower to tell hardworking Tennesseans” how to vote.<\/div>\n
Swift did not publicly back any candidate in the 2016 election when other stars like Beyonce and Lady Gaga hit the campaign trail on behalf of Hillary Clinton.<\/div>\n
In 2012, Swift told Time magazine she didn’t talk about politics “because it might influence other people”.<\/div>\n
(BBC)<\/div>\n
“I don’t think that I know enough yet in life to be telling people who to vote for,” she said at the time.<\/div>\n
Swift has previously been criticised for avoiding discussion about politics – and a top Google search around the time of the 2016 elections was “Who is Taylor Swift voting for?”<\/div>\n
Observers have argued that her political neutrality helped her popularity with country music fans.<\/div>\n
(BBC)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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