Tim Walz Makes Taylor Quick ‘Tortured Poets’ Reference, Calling Donald Trump ‘The Smallest Man’
Who’s “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”? Tim Walz gave that name to Donald Trump — creating a play games on phrases directly from Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Section — in a accent on Saturday (Sept. 14) forward of the 2024 presidential election.
“Here’s my life hack for all the guys out there,” the Minnesota governor, Kamala Harris’ VP pick out at the Democratic price ticket, mentioned an tournament in Superb, Wisconsin. He’d simply voiced his recognize for the clever ladies order him, together with spouse Gwen Walz, who’s an English trainer. “Surround yourself with smart women and listen to them, and you’ll do just fine. That includes my fellow cat owner Taylor Swift, too, by the way.”
“It’s really great to have all of these women help us beat the smallest man in the world: Donald Trump,” Walz mentioned to thanks, in an obvious nod to Quick’s Tortured Poets observe known as “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”
The Harris-Walz marketing campaign pivoted from a brat summer to a Quick pace when the pop superstar recommended the pair then Harris and Trump’s Sept. 10 debate. In Swift’s endorsement of the Democratic applicants, she known as out Trump posting faux AI pictures that had falsely prompt she supported the MAGA chief.
“It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” Quick mentioned concerning the doctored pictures Trump post on his Reality Social feed. “It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.”
“I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,” she said.
“I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos,” Quick wrote of Harris, including, “I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.”
Quick signed her publish as “Childless Cat Lady,” a zinger aimed toward Trump’s VP candidate JD Vance, who as soon as worn that description to demean Democratic leaders with out kids.
Quick’s endorsement — posted on her 238 million-follower Instagram feed — introduced around 400,000 people to the Vote.gov registration website online in refer to days.
Harris used Quick’s “The Man” at a post-debate look, presen Walz said he’s “incredibly grateful” to Quick for her nation backup. “I say that as a fellow cat owner,” he commented in an interview with MSNBC. “That was eloquent and that was clear and that’s the type of courage we need in America to stand up.”
Harris and Walz hastily made friendship bracelets spelling “Harris-Walz” to be had on their marketing campaign’s on-line bundle, with proceeds committing to the Harris Victory Charity. Advertisements from the Democratic Nationwide Committee, unveiled on billboards in Fresh York, quickly learn “We’re In Our Kamala Era!” and “A New Way Forward… Ready For It?”
Referring to who did encourage “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”: Quick doesn’t determine her original muses, regardless that the lyrics of the observe, and others at the Billboard 200 15-week chart-topper The Tortured Poets Section, do business in some hints to these ordinary together with her nation relationships.
“Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead?” Quick wonders of an ex-lover that ruined a “sparkling summer” by means of departure her. “Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? Were you writing a book? Were you a sleeper cell spy? In 50 years, will all this be declassified?”
“And you’ll confess why you did it,” she continues within the music’s uncooked bridge. “And I’ll say ‘good riddance’ ’cause it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden. I would’ve died for your sins; instead, I just died inside. And you deserve prison, but you won’t get time.”
Guard Walz’s complete accent from Saturday within the video underneath.