Taylor Swift reportedly gifted Brittany Mahomes with a handmade baby blanket to celebrate the birth of Mahomes’ newborn daughter, Golden Raye, according to Page Six.
“Taylor’s aunt knitted her a baby blanket when she was a child, so it’s always had a special meaning to her and something she wanted to do for her friends,” a source told the magazine. “It’s become a tradition for Taylor, something she loves to do and something that can’t be bought. It comes from the heart.”
Brittany and her husband, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, welcomed their new baby on January 12. It’s their third child and their first since Swift entered their lives when the pop star began dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Back in September, when Brittany was in the earlier stages of her pregnancy, she faced a barrage of online attacks from Swift fans.
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Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes on December 3rd (Getty Images)
These attacks were in response to the pregnant mother simply liking an Instagram post on Donald Trump’s account. Screenshots of Brittany’s like on a post that laid out Trump’s 2024 policy platform circulated on social media, often by Swift fan accounts. Many of these fans, who share Swift’s political beliefs as a Democrat, then flooded Brittany’s pages with insults and attacks.
Brittany even had to address the controversy several times in social media posts and a podcast interview and defend herself.
In an Aug. 23 post, Brittany wrote, “I mean honestly, to be a hater as an adult you have to have some deep rooted issues that you refuse to heal from childhood. There’s no reason your brain is fully developed, and you hate to see others succeed.” In another post on August 26, she wrote: “Unlike the tone of the world today … you can disagree with someone and still love them. You can have different views and still be kind. Read that again!”
On an Aug. 28 episode of the “Whoop” podcast, she said she’s been leaning on her three-time Super Bowl-winning husband to get her through the latest public scrutiny.
“Having him help me get through it has helped a lot because he’s very good at managing those things and blocking people out and doing all those kinds of things,” she said. “Having him by my side and kind of guiding me, coaching me through it, has helped a ton. I think it’s kind of gotten to where we are now.
The apparent political differences between Swift and Mahomes became more pronounced when they were seen sitting in separate suites at the Chiefs’ home opener against the Ravens on Sept. 5.
Then on September 10, Swift announced her support for Kamala Harris. In a Pakinomist interview the next day, Trump stated that he liked Brittany “a lot better” than Swift in response, having already acknowledged the support of the then-pregnant mother on social media.
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But Trump widened the political divide between Mahomes and Swift even more when he tweeted, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” on his Truth Social account.
However, Swift did not maintain her difference from Mahomes, even after Trump’s aggressive messages. They were later spotted in the same suite during a Chiefs game against the Saints on Oct. 7, and Brittany shared a photo of Swift rubbing her pregnant belly. Patrick also said in an October interview on “The Drive” podcast that he and Brittany often let their three-year-old daughter, Sterling Skye, bake with Swift.
Patrick’s mother Randi Mahomes also endorsed Trump days before the election.
Data suggests that Swift’s endorsement of Harris did not sway voters in a meaningful way in the most recent election.
According to AP VoteCast, 44% of women ages 18 to 44 voted for Trump, while 48% of women 45 and older supported the former president-elect.
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In one New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena College poll, conducted starting one day after Swift endorsed the Harris-Walz campaign, found of nearly 2,500 likely voters nationwide that 44% have a favorable view of Swift, compared to 34% who have an unfavorable attitude.
The same poll found that 47% view Trump favorably, compared to 51% who do not. The poll shows that 70% of Democrats have a favorable view of Swift, compared to 41% of independents and just 23% of Republicans. A total of 60% of Republicans indicated they had an unfavorable view of Swift, while only 11% of Democrats felt the same way.
A poll from September found that Trump has higher favorability numbers among likely voters compared to Swift.
Now, as Trump is set to return to office on Monday, Swift appears as cozy as ever with her Trump-supporting friend.
