Megyn Kelly is crashing out over Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
The former Fox News host and former NBC host turned conservative internet personality had a complete meltdown for five minutes straight on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show over Taylor’s presidential endorsement.
“You can kiss your sales to the Republican audience goodbye, Taylor,” Megyn said. “Hope you enjoyed them while you had them.”
For context, on Tuesday, Taylor posted a lengthy Instagram explaining her endorsement for Vice President Harris and the Minnesota governor’s campaign for the 2024 election.
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Taylor explained that she “was so heartened and impressed by [Harris’s] selection of running mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.”
The “Fortnight” singer clarified that she researched the issues, proposed policies, and plans for this country, and urged others, especially first-time voters, to register. This seems like a fair statement from a prominent celebrity, right?
Well, Megyn was not happy about the endorsement — at all. And honestly, her reaction was a little concerning.
“I’m allowed to criticize Taylor Swift, and I don’t give a shit who gets upset,” Megyn said. “This is disgusting. If she wants to vote Harris-Walz, she can do it all she wants but to say the reason she is doing it is because of Tim Walz’s stance on LGBTQ?”
“F you, Taylor Swift. And F all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off and watch them sterilized under the age of consent and then will ride off to their multi-gazillion dollar mansions, never to think of them again,” she said.
Pause. The unsubstantiated rhetoric that Megyn spewed is referring to claims that Gov. Walz signed legislation that allows minors to receive gender-affirming surgeries and allows courts to take (or, in her words, “kidnap”) trans children from their unsupportive parents.
Wrong! As LGBTQ Nation states, Gov. Walz issued a “trans refuge state” executive order in 2023 that established Minnesota as a safe state for gender-affirming care and protected care providers and families from out-of-state prosecutions against gender-affirming care.
Additionally, Walz’s support for LGBTQ+ extends to anti-bullying efforts, LGBTQ+ marriages, book bans, conversion therapy, and other very harmful government policies that affect LGBTQ+ citizens.
So perhaps let’s take a couple of deep breaths, check our facts, and chill out on the harmful, right-wing talking points.
But Megyn didn’t stop there. Her on-camera crash out also included criticism of Taylor’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
“This pair, Taylor and her boyfriend Travis Kelce, are the epitomes of elite snobs,” Megan said. “They both have gazillions of dollars. She doesn’t care what happens to these kids, just like he doesn’t give a shit what happens to all the young men who take the Pfizer booster he’s been pushing on them.”
“They will be sitting in their mansions in Rhode Island, California, and New York and jetting across the world saying, ‘Let them eat cake,'” Megyn continued. “Because they’ll be bathing themselves in their own sanctimony — too obsessed with their money, their concerts, and their football games to have a thought for those they hurt.”
Look, I’m not a Swiftie by any means. My favorite album, maybe, is Folklore, and that’s probably only because it reminds me of the hipster LA neighborhood I live in. However, I think Megyn Kelly’s five-minute audition for a new MCU villain, criticizing Taylor’s endorsement, is a step too far.
By definition, most politicians, especially former president Donald Trump, are wealthy notable figures or celebrities in their own right, so discrediting an individual like Taylor simply based on wealth and status would disqualify anyone, including Megyn, from these conversations.
Sure, these calculated outbursts and debunked theories may be driven by desires for attention or attempts to revive correspondent careers, but for many LGBTQ+ people, the harmful rhetoric threatens our freedoms and our existence, and it’s exhausting.
Perhaps we should be more concerned with political candidates who are too obsessed with their money, rallies, and golf games to think of those they hurt before we criticize a pop star and a football player.
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