Yesterday Taylor Swift shared a 38-word Tweet criticizing Donald Trump for his provocative comments about the riots in Minneapolis.
Donald Trump addressed the ongoing riots in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers. Trump’s comment that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” was a call back to racially charged words used by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley in 1967, and echoed the commonly used phrase by presidential candidate George Wallace during the highly volatile 1968 presidential campaign.
Swift has 86.2 million followers on Twitter, and a fanbase of “Swifties” that has a reputation for rallying behind the singer-songwriter and her calls to action. As of this morning it was retweeted over 390,000 times, making it her most popular tweet ever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/05/30/taylor-swift-and-the-tweet-that-could-help-take-down-a-president/#23faf0495863
