Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift announced that they would leave the United States if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
During the 2024 Republican National Convention, posts appeared on social media site X claiming that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had announced they would leave the country if Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election:
(X-User @usanews0)
We found no evidence that the couple had made such an announcement.
The claim dates back to February, when Kelce’s team, the Kansas City Chiefs, won Super Bowl LVIII with a walk-off touchdown pass in overtime. Some people believed it was a big conspiracy and everything was going according to plan.
The real story began a few weeks into the 2024 NFL season, when Kelce and Swift began dating publicly. Over the next few months, the Kansas City Chiefs, already one of the most talked-about teams in the NFL, came into even greater focus. Sports commentators couldn’t decide whether the Chiefs were a good team or not, especially when they lost some winnable games in the final weeks of the season.
But in the playoffs, the Chiefs gained new momentum and won the Super Bowl against teams that some experts considered better. That’s when the conspiracy theories began: that the NFL was rigged and that referees were canceling games to ensure that the Chiefs (and thus Taylor Swift’s boyfriend) would win the Super Bowl.
Some commentators went even further, with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy theorizing on X (formerly known as Twitter) that Swift and Kelce would publicly endorse Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election following the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.
I wonder who will win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there will be a major endorsement for the President in the fall from a contrived culturally supported couple. This is just some wild speculation, let’s see how this plays out over the next 8 months.
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) January 29, 2024
When the Chiefs came back and won a Super Bowl that the 49ers had dominated for much of the season, anyone who believed in those theories may have been alarmed. An X-post claiming that Kelce and Swift had publicly stated they would leave the country if Trump won may have confirmed some of those fears.
However, we found no reputable sources reporting on Kelce and Swift’s alleged statement. Given the intense media scrutiny surrounding Swift and Kelce, if the two ever made such a statement, news organizations from sports blogs to major newspapers would have reported on it.
Since we found that the alleged news was not reported in any media, we classify this claim as “false.”
