Jimmy Kimmel skewers MAGA obsession with Taylor Swift-Biden conspiracy

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel used his present on Tuesday night time to mock right-wing conspiracy theorists who’ve claimed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are “an artificially culturally propped-up couple” created to get President Biden re-elected.

MAGA supporters have in current weeks pushed a conspiracy concept that Taylor Swift is a Pentagon psy-op for combating misinformation.

But prior to now few days, the conspiracy concept was delivered to a brand new degree when the singer attended an NFL match during which her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, was enjoying.

After Sunday’s recreation, during which the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, clinching their spot within the subsequent Super Bowl, Ms Swift was seen strolling onto the pitch with her boyfriend’s mother and father earlier than throwing her arms across the sporting star.

It was not the primary Kansas City Chiefs recreation Ms Swift has attended. She has been an everyday spectator on the staff’s matches since she started relationship Mr Kelce final 12 months.

Nonetheless, the heartwarming second captured between the couple at Monday’s recreation prompted right-wingers to baselessly counsel that the upcoming Super Bowl might be rigged to make sure that the Kansas City Chiefs win in a roundabout technique to advertise President Joe Biden.

Rumble host Mike Crispi claimed, with none proof, that Taylor Swift would come out onstage in the course of the Halftime Show of the Super Bowl and announce that she is endorsing Joe Biden for president.

Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was among the many right-wingers who pushed the conspiracy concept.

“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Mr Ramaswamy tweeted. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.”

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“Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months,” he added.

Mr Ramaswamy’s tweet got here as a reply to right-wing determine Jack Posobiec, who shared a model of the speculation throughout an interview with actress Roseanne Barr.

Mr Posobiec stated he believes the Democratic Party and different powers are “gearing up for an operation to use Taylor Swift in the election against” Donald Trump. “It’s all been an op since day one,” he added.

During his present on Tuesday night time, Mr Kimmel took the chance to slam Mr Ramaswamy for pushing the baseless declare.

“Even this clown who ran for president, Vivek Ramaswamy, added his nut voice to the chorus of cuckoos,” Mr Kimmel stated.

“And it’s not just on Twitter — this nonsense is now everywhere your angry grandpa goes,” Mr Kimmel added, calling the conspiracy theorists “not-too-Swifties.”

“The same people who believe Joe Biden has dementia and needs Kamala Harris to 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,” he continued.

“I mean, it makes sense. It makes total sense. These people — these people think football is fake and wrestling is real.”

Though Ms Swift has largely stored quiet on politics, she did endorse Mr Biden for president in 2020, and in September acquired greater than 35,000 individuals to register to vote with an Instagram submit on National Voter Registration Day.

Earlier this month, Vote.org chief Andrea Hailey, who Ms Swift has beforehand partnered with to encourage younger individuals to register to vote, responded to claims that she was a authorities psy-op.

“Not a psy-op or a Pentagon asset,” she wrote on X. “Just the biggest nonpartisan platform in America helping young people register & cast their vote.”