A former staffer of the Trump administration said she was warned against playing Taylor Swift's music in the White House because the singer wasn't "a fan of Trump's."
Olivia Troye, an advisor for former Vice President Mike Pence who served on the Coronavirus Task Force, said she went to her office in the White House following a meeting about Covid-19.
"I remember a moment in the spring where I came back very angry after a meeting where I lost an argument with someone [over] something I didn't agree with related to the pandemic," Troye told MSNBC.
She added: "I came back and was playing Taylor Swift very loud in my office late that night, and I had a colleague knock on the door, and he said, 'Are you trying to get fired?' I was super confused about that and I was like 'for being blunt in meetings or for what?'"
Troye said she initially thought he was referring to the meeting she'd just had, but the staffer was actually referring to her music.
"He said, 'Well, I don't think she's a fan of Trump's, and so if somebody hears that, you should really watch your back. You should be careful on that,'" Troye said the staffer told her, suggesting Swift was not a fan of the former president.
"That is just so astonishing to me," Troye added. "It's late, I'm allowed to listen to whatever music I want."
Trump joked about liking Swift's music less after the singer endorsed Democrats running for office in her home state of Tennessee in 2018.
'Let's say that I like Taylor's music about 25% less now, okay," he said at the time.
Later, in her Netflix documentary Miss Americana, Swift was seen laughing backstage as she got ready for the American Music Awards in 2018 about the comment.
Swift also publicly supported the Equality Act and mentioned it throughout several of her award-winning speeches through the award season.
What's more, the singer also released a political song called 'Only The Young' in connection with the documentary's release that encourages the young to vote.
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