WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his blessing to pop queen Taylor Swift’s engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce Tuesday — after initially snarking “I wish him a lot of luck.”
Trump, 79, made a similar dismissive statement in the fall of 2020 about Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan Markle, and offered softer additional comments when asked about the Swift-Kelce match during a cabinet meeting.
“No, I think he’s a great player, I think he’s a great guy,” the president said. “I think that she’s a terrific person. So I wish them a lot of luck.”
Swift, 35, endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris against Trump in last year’s election, calling the Democrat “a steady-handed, gifted leader” who would bring “calm and not chaos.”
The “Cruel Summer” singer revealed her engagement to Kelce, also 35, with a magazine-style photo shoot of the Kansas City Chief tight end kneeling and then embracing her in front of a floral shop’s worth of blooms in an outdoor setting at an unknown location.
Swift was loudly booed — to her apparent surprise — when she was shown on the big screen early in the game, which did not escape Trump’s notice.
“The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” the president wrote on Truth Social that night. “She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”
