'Are you asleep?' Ex-Trump aide urges Taylor Swift to slap back over fake endorsement
A former aide of former president Donald Trump is calling on Taylor Swift to speak out against her former boss after he shared the pop icon's faked endorsement with the words "I accept."
Attorney A.J. Delgado, a former senior Trump campaign adviser turned vocal critic, lashed out at Swift and her spokesperson Tree Paine in a series of X posts Monday morning.
"Are you and your client asleep?" A. J. Delgado wrote. "You're going to let this go uncorrected?"
Hours earlier, Trump shared a Truth Social post an A.I. photo of Swift as Uncle Sam with the words "Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump."
"I accept!" Trump wrote above the image.
Delgado urged the pop icon and her powerful spokesperson to act swiftly.
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"When a young blogger wrote an article re: Swift's troubling lack of condemnation of the Far Right's invocation of her, Swift's team fired off a letter, threatening to sue her," Delgado wrote. "Why the silence now, @TaylorSwift @TreePaine? Now would be a good time to make clear where TS stands."
Paine is a public relations executive who has had a lone client since 2014: Swift.
Paine is known as a fierce advocate of her client's reputation, threatening to sue a student tracking Swift's plane and a social media gossip spreading rumors of an alleged marriage.
Swift has yet to endorse either political candidate but rumors are circulating she might make an appearance at the Democratic National Convention, CNN reported Sunday.
She also spoke out publicly against Trump in May 2020 as George Floyd's death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer spurred protesters to take to the streets nationwide.
"After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence?" Swift wrote on X. "‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November."