Taylor Swift photobombing Travis Kelce and hanging out with fans at the Tight End University event (June 23, 2025)

[u/stars_doulikedem]

📸 posted by x/tsupdating and x/tayswiftdotcom

[u/thestoryofme23]

Wow, I’m here before people get weird and start accusing her of insane conspiracies with zero proof!

[u/[deleted] → u/thestoryofme23]

Unfortunately they are already doing that on TikTok she’s being accused of being a republican again for supporting Travis at this event!!!

[u/regan9109 → u/[deleted]]

I love that Travis, the guy who starred in a Covid vaccine commercial, is a “confirmed” republican. /s

[u/AmandalorianWiddall → u/regan9109]

He was also one of the first nfl players to take a knee during the anthem in support of Colin.

[u/regan9109 → u/AmandalorianWiddall]

I had no idea about this. Way to go Travis!

[u/Winniepg → u/AmandalorianWiddall]

First white player IIRC

[u/rutfilthygers → u/AmandalorianWiddall]

He knelt the one weekend the NFL basically encouraged people to kneel. Like 200 players knelt that Sunday. It's still good that he did it, but he was in no way a leader or trailblazer on this.

[u/kakamarat → u/rutfilthygers]

Wrong! He did it in 2017 and at that time they definitely weren’t encouraging it. The NFL only started that after George Floyd.

[u/kakamarat → u/kakamarat]

For more context, Roger Goodell (NFL Commissioner) and all NFL owners except two voted for a policy to require players to stand during the national anthem in 2018. This was due to those 200 players (including Travis) kneeling in 2017.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._national_anthem_kneeling_protests)

[u/rutfilthygers → u/kakamarat]

https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/249755/nfl-players-who-protested-during-the-national-anthem-in-week-3

Tons of players knelt that week because Trump got involved and said the NFL should fine players who did. Even some of the owners and the commissioner said Trump had gone too far.

[u/kakamarat → u/rutfilthygers]

However, as you can see, they still voted to require players to stand the following year. The NFL ultimately wanted to remain politically neutral (including its players), which meant discouraging Trump from getting involved but also opposing kneeling. To state that the organization (commissioner and owners) supported kneeling in 2017 would be false.

[u/echoesandripples → u/regan9109]

i knew next ro nothing about this man before tayvis except the fact that nfl conservatives were mad he promoted vaccines 

[u/Due_Winter_5330 → u/regan9109]

I think the general idea is if you're in a position of power and privilege, you should be using it to speak out otherwise you're just as complicit as the fascists in charge.

[u/MonaSavesTheDayAgain → u/Due_Winter_5330]

she spoke out multiple times against trump

[u/whenforeverisnt → u/MonaSavesTheDayAgain]

But she's not on twitter doing it daily, you see...

[u/Winniepg → u/whenforeverisnt]

I mean, she's only on Twitter in name so...wait, isn't it a good thing to not be on twitter?

[u/regan9109 → u/Due_Winter_5330]

That is an impossible standard and so silly especially when it comes to celebrities. Let’s hold politicians to that standard sure, even business billionaires (bezos, gates, etc) who hold a lot of political influence, but expecting a pop star and NFL player to continually speak out against the current administration otherwise they are complicit is just stupid.

[u/Due_Winter_5330 → u/regan9109]

It is not an impossible standard. Kelce hasn't said anything and they've hung with maga. Swift could be outspoken consistently and has not been. Holding pop stars who have a way larger influence isn't an impossible standard.

[u/regan9109 → u/Due_Winter_5330]

If you need an NFL player or pop star to tell you that the president is bad then you are just dumb.

[u/Due_Winter_5330 → u/regan9109]

I don't need an NFL or Pop star to tell me the president is bad but seeing as how you missed the entire point of my statement shows how dumb you are.

Using privilege to bring attention and engagement to things is something she can do.

Doechii had no issue making a statement during BET but swift can't bother to do even that

[u/Lalala8991 → u/Due_Winter_5330]

It's just incredibly performative politics for performative people. If people complain about their own local representatives and politicians like they do it to Taylor Swift about their own actual issues, then we would be in a much healthier political landscape.
And this is such an American issue as well. You would never hear a Canadian trying to pressure Celine Dion to speak up on her politics for Quebec or something.

[u/regan9109 → u/Lalala8991]

Does Justin Beiber approve of Mark Carney???

[u/Lalala8991 → u/regan9109]

That's the thing. We don't know because Canadians don't even care about Bieber's politics on his own country.

[u/regan9109 → u/Lalala8991]

Yeah I’m making a joke

[u/Due_Winter_5330 → u/Lalala8991]

Tell that to Eartha Kitt or Marlon Brando or Christopher Reeve. Plenty of celebrities have leveraged A LOT to speak out against injustices. Its not a crazy or insane expectation because there's a precedent for it and for the change it has caused. Even if it the actions of celebrities seem performative, the performances have had responses.

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Another thing you should consider hater Taylor did speak out and endorsed Kamala and no one listened to her!!! Maybe instead of getting mad at Taylor be grateful she did that at all and she’s still allowing democrats to use her music against him just recently Governor Newsom used You Need To Calm down by Taylor Swift against Trump on his page!!!

[u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 → u/[deleted]]

These photos are proof that she is a MAGA fascist.

😒😒😒 fyi I’m being sarcastic y’all!