00:00Taylor Swift is facing backlash from some Swifties online after hugging friend Brittany
00:05Mahomes at the 2024 U.S. Open Tennis Championships.
00:09Here's why.
00:10Brittany Mahomes, wife of Kansas City Chiefs player Patrick Mahomes, recently made headlines
00:15after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thanked her for her support on Truth
00:19Social, writing,
00:20"'I want to thank beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me and the fact
00:25that MAGA is the greatest and most powerful political movement in the history of our now
00:29failing country."
00:30The former president continued,
00:32"'It is nice to see someone who loves our country and wants to save it from doom.
00:36What a great couple.
00:37See you both at the Super Bowl.'"
00:38It's unclear exactly what Trump meant by strongly defending, but Mahomes has recently
00:44been liking and unliking a number of Trump campaign social media posts.
00:48While fans thought Swift was giving her friend the cold shoulder at a recent Kansas City
00:52Chiefs game after they sat in separate sections, that theory was thrown out the window on September
00:578th at the U.S. Open.
00:59Paparazzi snapped pics of Swift and Mahomes enjoying the game, hugging and giggling with
01:03their respective Chiefs players.
01:05The pictures have rubbed a lot of Swifties, a largely left-leaning fanbase, the wrong
01:10way, as many took to social media to criticize the star on X.
01:14This user wrote,
01:15"'Hugging' Trump supporters is a new low for her."
01:17And another chimed in,
01:19"'Honestly, they seem so happy.
01:20I wish I was this out of touch.'"
