Biden jokes potential Taylor Swift endorsement is 'classified' matter
President Biden says he can neither confirm nor deny whether there’s a conspiracy between his reelection campaign and Taylor Swift, quipping that it’s “classified” information.
The commander in chief made an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night” to mark Seth Meyers’s 10th anniversary as host.
Meyers asked the president about a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month that trolled MAGA Republicans over a conspiracy theory that the Kansas City Chiefs’s Super Bowl win was rigged in order to maximize exposure for Swift to endorse Biden’s reelection bid.
The “Shake it Off” singer is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
“I have you on the hot spot here,” Meyers said to Biden. “Can you confirm or deny that there is an active conspiracy between you and Ms. Swift?”
“Where are you getting this information?” Biden, sporting a pair of aviators he put on while mocking the right’s “Dark Brandon” meme, said with a grin.
“It’s classified,” the president said.
“That’s classified information,” he repeated.
“But I will tell you, she did endorse me in 2020,” Biden added of the 34-year-old Grammy Award winner.
Swift backed Biden in a 2020 interview published a month before the presidential election, saying under his and then-vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s leadership, she believed “America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.”
The New York Times reported last month that Biden’s campaign was actively seeking an endorsement from Swift, who boasts a massive following.