Donald Trump lashes out as he launches into all-caps attack on US pop star: 'I hate Taylor Swift!'
Trump lashed out at the country singer after she backed Kamala Harris
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Donald Trump has hit out at Taylor Swift in a scathing social media post after she backed election rival Kamala Harris earlier this week.
After Trump and Harris went head-to-head in their first televised debate on September 10, the country singer backed the latter - bringing an end to months of speculation over a potential endorsement by one of the world's most influential women.
But now, the 45th President - on his own social media platform, Truth Social - has cast down the country star.
Addressing his millions of followers, Trump wrote: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" - sparking outrage from Harris's team.
Donald Trump has hit out at Taylor Swift in a scathing social media post
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In a letter to supporters shortly after Trump's post, the Harris campaign released a series of Taylor Swift puns as they lambasted their Republican adversary.
PR aides in Harris's camp name-checked some 28 Swift song titles, with punny phrases including: "Donald Trump's week of whining and spouting conspiracy theories has voters ready to Forget That He Existed."
The letter continued: "The American people want to be Out of the Woods of the chaos and division of the Trump era, leave behind the Blank Space of Trump's broken promises, and Begin Again by electing Vice President Harris to ensure America's future of opportunity is Long Lived.
"Voters know All Too Well how dangerous Trump and his Project 2025 agenda will be if he wins. This November, we can make sure this is The Last Time we have to deal with his End Game of jacking up taxes on the middle class and ripping away Americans' freedoms.
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Swift endorsed Kamala Harris after her debate with Trump
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Kamala's team hit back at Trump's tirade in a pun-fuelled letter
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"We can make sure The Story of Us is one of progress - and show Donald Trump we are not going Back to December of 2020. Like ever."
Most scathing in the Harris campaign piece was an excerpt reading: "His rambling, yelling and constant conspiracy theories have many asking if The Man is 'too emotional' to be president. Call It What You Want, but it's Nothing New for the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived."
Team Kamala will doubtless be feeling buoyed - not only by their celebrity endorsement, and ability to capitalise on that to take a swipe at Donald Trump - but also by the polls.
Data compiled by polling aggregators at FiveThirtyEight has put Harris ahead in dozens of surveys throughout September - compared to Trump's meagre six.
Trump claimed Haitian immigrants were "eating the dogs" during his debate
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In a move to stoke up support from the American Right, Trump has doubled down on his hard anti-migration rhetoric in recent days - not least regarding Springfield, Ohio, in which he claimed Haitian immigrants were "eating the dogs" during his debate with Harris.
The Biden administration had extended "Temporary Protected Status" to hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US back in June - but after the pet-eating theories began gaining traction online, Trump seized upon them.
Pledging to take action at a press conference outside one of his golf resorts in Los Angeles, the former President vowed: "We will do large deportations in Springfield, Ohio."
In Las Vegas later on Friday, he added: "I'm angry about illegal Haitian migrants taking over Springfield, Ohio. You see that mess, don't you?"
"I'm angry about young American girls being raped and murdered by savage criminal aliens that come into our country very easily, but very illegally."