The fulminations surrounding the world’s biggest pop icon — and girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — reached the stratosphere after Kansas City made it to the Super Bowl.

For football fans eager to see a new team in the Super Bowl, the conference championship games on Sunday that sent the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers back to the main event of American sports culture were sorely disappointing.

But one thing is new: Taylor Swift. And she is driving the movement behind Donald Trump bonkers.

The fulminations surrounding the world’s biggest pop icon — and girlfriend of Travis Kelce, the Chiefs’ star tight end — reached the stratosphere after Kansas City made it to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years, and the first time since Ms. Swift joined the team’s entourage.

The conspiracy theories coming out of the Make America Great Again contingent were already legion: that Ms. Swift is a secret agent of the Pentagon; that she is bolstering her fan base in preparation for her endorsement of President Biden’s re-election; or that she and Mr. Kelce are a contrived couple, assembled to boost the N.F.L. or Covid vaccines or Democrats or whatever.

“I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month,” Vivek Ramaswamy, the conspiratorial presidential candidate, turned Trump surrogate, pondered on social media on Monday. “And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall.”

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  • @xc2215x
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    Taylor Swift is encouraging young people to vote which MAGA hates. This is what this is about.

      • @Tylerdurdon
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        2610 months ago

        Voting bad! MAGA good!

        Lumbers off with club to find female

          • @AbidanYre
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            610 months ago

            There was a time when blue hair meant old people.

            • @pete_the_cat
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              410 months ago

              Ah, yes, back when “blue hair day” at a place meant the day when all the old ladies were there.

    • @givesomefucks
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      2310 months ago

      Not even that hard either…

      But regardless of if this makes her push her fans more to vote or not, the swifties view this as an attack on Taylor.

      And you don’t fuck with Tay Tay. Her fans are about to set something crazy like 99% voter turnout even if she never mentions the election personally.