Trump's 'tweet' to Taylor Swift is just downright unpatriotic - and here's why

President Donald Trump's gleeful delight successful different people's misfortune shows however toxic the US has become, says Daily Mirror Columnist Jessica Boulton

President Donald Trump was speedy to mock his nemesis Taylor Swift erstwhile she was booed astatine this weekend's Super Bowl - by issuing a gleeful station connected his Truth Social platform. But portion his MAGA fans lapped it up, Daily Mirror Columnist Jessica Boulton believes it's impervious - successful 140 characters oregon little - that the country's mislaid its way......

IT was the societal media station that said it all.

There, for the full satellite to see, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the alleged Leader of the Free World, the Commander successful Chief and the upholder of the American Constitution, utilized his level to present a connection to his people.

And what was it helium chose to archer us? What contented did helium privation to impart?

It was thing astir the Middle East situation and Gaza - helium saved that for today, erstwhile his explosive comments threatened to shingle the ceasefire. Neither was it astir the struggle successful Ukraine, the turtles who'll present beryllium choking connected his reintroduced integrative straws oregon - gosh forbid - that ‘imaginary’ happening america wide lefties telephone ‘climate change’.

No, helium utilized the powerfulness handed to him by the Home of the Free and Land of the Brave to…. mock a 35-year-old woman. And, worse, cheer connected others who were taunting her.

“The lone 1 that had a tougher nighttime than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” wrote the President, connected his ain societal media level Truth Social this weekend. “She got BOOED retired of the Stadium. MAGA is precise unforgiving!”

He was, of course, referring to the Super Bowl assemblage successful New Orleans. He got cheers erstwhile helium appeared connected the Jumbotron. She got jeers.

For each Trump knows, it was the rival fans starring the boos - she has, aft all, go the look Kansas City Chiefs, acknowledgment to fellow Travis Kelce.

Less likely, but possible, it was to bash with the never-ending Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni case. (I'd surely boo anyone who prolongs the naval-gazing tribunal lawsuit immoderate longer).

Or who knows, possibly the haters conscionable couldn’t get tickets to her ERAS tour….

It doesn’t truly substance why she was booed.

It lone matters that the President of The United States of America thought it was astir him - and, astir importantly, that helium was publically gleeful astir it.

Just a fewer months agone helium posted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” to his aforesaid MAGA acolytes.

Let’s remember, Taylor’s lone ‘crime’ against Trump has been to endorse his governmental rival Kamala Harris during the US election. She didn’t adjacent notation Trump by name, she conscionable sung the praises of his opposition.

So what connection is helium sending to a state that’s already truthful divided by posting his snide small remark to the world?

That by mocking her, his fans are proving their loyalty to him? That it’s good to laughter astatine someone’s misfortune, if that idiosyncratic doesn’t stock your views?

And what astir the connection this sends to Swift’s young fans? Should they turn up reasoning you can't stock your beliefs if they situation the presumption quo? Or that if you do, you should expect abuse?

How did a state founded connected the precise thought of state get to the stage? One wherever its president seems amused by the information his ardent fanbase volition ever crook connected his critics?

This is not the behaviour of a state that protects citizens' "general welfare" and oregon "insures home tranquility" arsenic pledged successful the constitution.

Neither is it befitting what those successful his bureau person said successful the past. It was successful the 1940s that Franklin D Roosevelt offered this wisdom: "If you dainty radical close they volition dainty you right... 90% of the time." Twenty unusual years earlier, Warren G Harding had said: "There's bully successful everybody. Boost. Don't knock.” And 70-odd years earlier that Abraham Lincoln was claimed to person said: “How tin I amended destruct my enemies than by making them my friends?” All of these would acceptable wrong the 140 characters of a Tweet, and yet what a quality from Trump's. Even Taylor knows better: "haters gonna hate" and "shake it off", really could beryllium utile proposal for the sitting POTUS.

Yes, the close to escaped code is simply a cornerstone of the US constitution. But it’s not escaped speech, if by speaking your mind, you indispensable expect to beryllium attacked - with the evident enactment of the highest bureau successful the land.

Next July volition beryllium 350 years since the US declared its independency from Britain. Since The US broke things disconnected with america and decided we're amended disconnected apart....

At archetypal it was a loss. But boy, has our ex fto itself go. So, let’s conscionable convey our fortunate stars - and stripes - that, successful the words of Taylor herself….We are never, ever, ever getting backmost together.