Taylor Swift, currently promoting the release of her latest album, has accused Donald Trump of treating his White House reign as an "autocracy," in a new political turn for the singer.
"We're a democracy -- at least, we're supposed to be -- where you're allowed to disagree, dissent, debate," the pop star said in snippets of an interview teased Friday by The Guardian.
Speaking about the US president, the 29-year-old said, "I really think that he thinks this is an autocracy."
In American politics, Swift said, "all the dirtiest tricks in the book were used and it worked."
She described the current state of affairs as "gaslighting the American public into being like, 'If you hate the president, you hate America.'"
"I just knew what I could handle and I knew what I couldn't. I was literally about to break."
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