Former FBI Director James Comey is looking to move on from his conflicts with President Trump. In a peculiar video released on Sunday, Comey shared that he has found a new way to cope: listening to pop icon Taylor Swift and trying to embrace her philosophy via NY Post.
The self-identified “Swiftie” admitted that he has been troubled by the aggressive tactics of Democrats like California Governor Gavin Newsom, who take strong shots at Trump. Consequently, Comey expressed a preference for Swift’s gentler approach.
“While our elderly makeup-covered president is posting about whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he can’t stand her, what’s she doing?” Comey reflected in a video on his Substack.
“Living her best life, producing great music and as she urged all of us to do during the podcast, not giving the jerks power over her mind,” he said, referring to Swift’s appearance on the “New Heights” podcast with the Kelce brothers.
“She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck with me — think of your energy as if it’s expensive.”
Trump previously declared that Swift is “no longer hot,” juxtaposing the singer with actress Sydney Sweeney, who has garnered acclaim from conservatives over her steamy American Eagle jeans commercials.
Swift had endorsed both former President Joe Biden in 2020 and former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election cycle. Trump declared last September that “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” and claimed that his intervention tanked her popularity.
Comey bragged that “Taylor Swift and I go way back,” though it’s not clear the two have ever met in person or that she even knows who he is.
“I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago,” he said. “And I have helped financially support the attendance of a lot of family members and others. I’m in a family Swiftie group chat. I know all her music.”
The former FBI director revealed that his favorite song by Swift is a tie between “All Too Well” and “Exile.”
“I struggle with how to stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me and change me,” Comey added. “You may have seen that the governor of California has been generating a lot of attention lately by posting on social media in a satirical way, where he mocks Donald Trump and his all-caps, megalomania and his absurdity.”
“I find it very funny, hilarious, even sometimes. But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times, because I don’t want us to become like Trump and his followers,” he added. “There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks.”
Swift is famous for writing songs that appear pointed against some of the dramatic breakups she’s had with various men over the years, including songs like “Picture to Burn” and “Better Man.”
However, Comey stated that Taylor taught him to show grace.
“At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut, 14 years ago this summer, she sang a song about this topic, asking why you got to be so mean,” Comey recounted. “She spoke directly to the nasty people, ‘I bet you got pushed around. Somebody made you cold, but the cycle ends right now.’”
“Nobody should have power over us. Thank you, Taylor Swift.”
Comey — whom Trump fired as FBI director in 2017, sparking a chain of events that led to the Mueller investigation — has long been as a fierce critic of the president.
