Taylor Swift calls out White House during VMAs acceptance speech
By Whitney Friedlander, CNN
Updated 9:01 AM ET, Tue August 27, 2019
(CNN)Taylor Swift is certainly not taking a literal interpretation of her single, "You Need to Calm Down."
The singer got political during her 2019 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech for video of the year, which she won for the pride-themed anthem, to call out the Trump administration's current lack of acknowledgment of the Equality Act petition for LGBTQ rights. A call to sign the petition was featured at the end of her video.
"It now has half a million signatures, which is five times the amount that it would need to warrant a response from the White House," Swift said, then looked at her wrist as if to gesture she was checking the time on a watch. ...
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