Jimmy Kimmel mocked the ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories revolving around Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl during his monologue on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“There’s some serious crazy talk about Taylor Swift and Joe Biden going around right now,” Kimmel said. “You expect to hear this from a couple of nuts, and it disappears, but if anything, it’s picking up steam.”
The late-night host then read just a handful of the thousands of tweets — including one from former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy — that the Super Bowl is “fixed” and that Swift is an “op” who will use the Kansas City Chiefs and boyfriend Travis Kelce’s preordained victory to endorse Biden.
Kimmel quipped, “So let me get this straight: The same people who think Joe Biden has dementia and has Kamala Harris feed him butterscotch tapioca every night also believe that he has somehow planned and executed a diabolically brilliant scheme to fix the NFL playoffs so the biggest pop star in the world can pop up on the jumbotron during the Super Bowl in between a Kia and a Tostitos commercial to hypnotize her 11-year-old fans into voting for Joe Biden? I mean, it makes sense… These people think football is fake and wrestling is real.”
The attacks on Swift aren’t just confined to social media: Fox News, OANN, and their brethren also spent an uncomfortable amount of airtime bad-mouthing Swift, pushing the Super Bowl conspiracy theories, and positing that she is some sort of enchantress casting spells to brainwash America’s youth.
“These people who worship a golden pig are warning us about idolatry and spells,” Kimmel added.
As Rolling Stone reported Tuesday, Swift hasn’t even endorsed a candidate for president yet, but the MAGA hierarchy are already plotting to declare — as one source close to Donald Trump calls it — a “holy war” on the singer, especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.
Trump, however, doesn’t seem all that concerned: In recent weeks, the former president has told people in his orbit that no amount of A-list celebrity endorsements will save Biden. Trump has also privately claimed that he is “more popular” than Swift and that he has more committed fans than she does, a person close to Trump and another source with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone.
