Comedian Bill Maher suggested it’s time for Taylor Swift to grow up as he criticized her songs and predicted Travis Kelce would leave her.
The elderly comedian offered his analysis while chatting with Hailey Welch, 23, better known as ‘Hawk Tuah Girl,’ on Monday’s edition of his Club Random podcast.
“But he’s going to leave her, you know that,” he told his young guest.
“With her, it’s like Gatorade at the Super Bowl, you know you’re going to get dumped,” he added. “You just don’t know when.”
Bill Maher claimed Taylor Swift will be “dumped like the Gatorade of the Super Bowl” while chatting with Hawk Tuah Girl Hailey Welch on Monday’s edition of his Club Random podcast.
The superstar singer and her Kansas City Chiefs beau were first spotted out in public together in September of last year and she has been a regular spectator at their games.
Swift, 34, has been dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end for nearly a year and spoke publicly about their relationship for the first time in an interview with Time in December 2023.
The Fearless singer appeared in the stands at more than a dozen Chiefs games last season, cheering them on to victory in February’s Super Bowl.
But the support from her fans didn’t impress the 68-year-old talk show host, and he predicted it wouldn’t impress her boyfriend either.
“I’m sure he’s a lovely person, but the whole football player thing,” she complained.
“I felt like 35 was a bit old to be saying, ‘My boyfriend is a football player and I’m wearing his jersey to the game with his number on it!’ Right? Come on, come on.”
Welch rose to fame over the summer after using the term “hawk tuah” to describe spitting as part of a sexual act during a street interview that went viral, and protested that Swift should do “whatever makes her happy.”
But she speculated that the superstar could stay true to form and write another hit album about their relationship.
Her breakup with singer-songwriter John Mayer produced one of her biggest hits, 2010’s Dear John, and she went on to write reminiscences about exes including Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas and Harry Styles.
“It’s not going to be ‘fuck John Mayer’ anymore, it’s going to be ‘fuck Travis,'” Welch joked.
“That was a long time ago,” Maher replied, “Do you still sing about it?”
And he said that writing about one’s personal life is “very tasteless.”
“You can’t control what the muse tells you. She’s a songwriter. I can’t blame her for that,” he added.
“But it seems like a recurring theme. At some point, you just want to say: maybe you should write a song called ‘Maybe It’s Me.'”
The liberal comedian effusive praised Swift’s album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ when it was released in April, describing it as “Something for the Swifties and something for the not-so-Swifties.”
“Everyone loves it,” he enthused. “Tweens love it, teens love it, millennials love it.”
And he warned Republicans that the Grammy-winning singer could cost them the November presidential election if she supports Democrats as she did in 2020.
Maher said it was “very tasteless” for Swift to document her personal life in her songs
But Welch speculated that the superstar could stay true to form and write another hit album about their relationship, should it fail.
“This is a person who could literally change the outcome of the election,” he said on his Real Time podcast in February.
“I don’t know what that says about this country, but I would just say to the MAGA people, ‘You should be very careful about attacking her because she’s someone who transcends party lines.'”
The singer sparked a surge in voter registration after encouraging her 272 million followers on Instagram Stories to participate in September last year.
I mean, she’s a country girl, right? Maher mused.
“She started out as a country artist. She’s a white girl from Pennsylvania, I think, who grew up on a farm, right? She never had a black boyfriend.
‘You know, if ‘MAGA’ is full of racists, then they have to like that.
“Her voters may not be registered and she doesn’t have to say who she’s voting for. All she has to say is register. They know who she’s voting for.”
