Taylor Swift slams Trump for 'stoking the fires of white supremacy' and vows to help vote him out in November

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Taylor Swift blasted President Donald Trump for "stoking the flames of white supremacy" and vowed to vote him out in November in a Friday tweet.

Swift's uncharacteristically strong statement came in response to a tweet from Trump, posted in the early hours of Friday morning, threatening to send the National Guard into Minneapolis as protests escalated in response to the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, who died shortly after being violently arrested by four police officers in the city.

"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!" Trump wrote in a tweet that Twitter later flagged as violating their policy against glorifying violence. 

"After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence?," Swift wrote of Trump's incendiary tweet. "'When the looting starts the shooting starts'??? We will vote you out in November."