Here’s a sentence we never thought we’d be typing in 2024: Scooter Braun just defended Taylor Swift.
Who would have guessed?!
The former manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande had a well-documented feud with the world’s biggest pop star.
He’s also the reason fans love the re-releases of all of his first seven albums.
In the years since this rivalry began, neither side has spoken about the other — but after Taylor Swift received a trash message from President Trump, Scooter Braun stepped in.
Scooter Braun Defends Taylor Swift Against Donald Trump With His Own Lyrics
On September 15, just hours before Taylor and her mother cheered on boyfriend Travis Kelce at their latest football game, the former President took to Truth social media to send a not-so-subtle message to the Grammy winner.
After hiding from Taylor last week after endorsing Kamala Harris for president after the debate, Trump decided it was time to make things right.
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” he posted it on social media for the whole world to see. Now, this isn’t breaking news – but what happened next shocked Swifties.
Scooter Braun, a music manager turned businessman who discovered he owned all of Taylor’s masters a few years ago, relayed Trump’s message to Taylor.
And he called the former Prez!
“Shake it off Donald,” he wrote, quoting Taylor’s most famous song of all time. After that, Scooter sent his own endorsement to Kamala in the off.
Scooter Braun retweets Donald Trump’s “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” send:
“Stop Donald. Kamala 2024 ???????” pic.twitter.com/fj5NFqDZfP
– Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 15, 2024
Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s Drama Never Ends
The bad blood between Taylor and Scooter is legendary.
In June 2019, Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records in a $300 million deal. Taylor Swift’s catalog, which includes albums Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Self-esteemcomes with a deal and is believed to be worth around $140 million, variety reported.
Days after the deal was signed, Taylor came out to slam the deal, calling Scooter a “disruptor” and “the definition of toxic male privilege in our industry.”
With that, Taylor went on a campaign to make the album worthless to its new owner, by re-recording the albums, one by one, and appealing to the public to report the recordings in their original form.
In 2023, thanks to his epic Eras re-release and tour, Taylor was dubbed a billionaire by Forbes magazine.
Scooter Trying to Reconcile?!
In 2020, Scooter sold Taylor’s master to Shamrock Capital for $300 million. At the time, Swift denied the news in a Twitter post.
“This is the second time my music has been sold without my knowledge,” he said in the post. According to him, Shamrock said that before the sale, Braun required the company not to make contact with him or his team, or the deal would not go through.
Scooter has for the most part remained hush-hush about the whole thing, defending himself only when he felt the need.
However, in those years, he lost other clients, such as Justin Bieber, and even stopped managing.
But he’s also been more, shall we say, active in posting cryptic digs at Taylor. When HBO released a documentary about the feud in the summer of 2024, he posted about it on Instagram, confirming that he had watched it.
A few weeks later he showed a TMZ post about the party Taylor hosted in his Rhode Island mansion over Labor Day, a celeb-inspired birthday bash for his friend Blake Lively.
“How come I wasn’t invited!?!” he wrote, adding the curious hashtag, #laughalittle.
Clearly, he’s being nice about things at Taylor’s expense.
Well, we’ll tell Scooter this if he can: if he hopes to get back into Taylor’s good graces, he needs to think again.
That ship has definitely sailed!
