Trump claims it would be ‘disloyal’ if Taylor Swift endorses Biden. So what is the Music Modernization Act?

Hours before Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, Donald Trump made one last, desperate appeal for the political support of pop superstar Taylor Swift, knowing she was flying in to watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce in action and would dominate coverage of the big game.

“I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists,” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination wrote on Truth Social.

“Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.

He continued, bizarrely: “Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can’t stand me!”

Swift has recently been the subject of a deranged right-wing conspiracy theory claiming that her entire career and fairytale romance with Kelce amounts to a Democratic Party “psyop” intended to sway voters into backing President Joe Biden in November.

The singer did endorse the president in 2020 but has yet to do so again this year.

She has spoken out against Mr Trump in the past and looks extremely unlikely to switch allegiances this time around.

“Invoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realised that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric,” she wrote in Elle in 2019.

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift embrace after the Super Bowl

Mr Trump’s optimistic appeal to her good graces relates to an act he did indeed sign into law as commander-in-chief in October