Texas man pays $4,000 for ‘signed’ Taylor Swift guitar at auction, then smashes it into pieces with a hammer

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A man in Texas paid $4,000 for what was described as a “signed” Taylor Swift guitar, but immediately smashed it to pieces with a hammer.

Footage of the incident at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner in Waxahachie, Texas, has since gone viral.

The event was a fundraiser to support agricultural education for local youth, and the guitar was one of several items auctioned, along with tickets to see George Strait and Chris Stapleton, an African safari, a dove hunt and a trip to Kentucky Bourbon. Path.

In a statement to The independentsaid one of the organizers that the Swift guitar “was a real autographed guitar and sold for $4,000.”

In the video, the man can be seen approaching the stage where a member of the auction staff is waiting with the instrument, covered in footage of Swift from her record-breaking Eras Tour, and a gavel.

The man grabs them both and hits the front of the guitar with the hammer, to loud cheers from the crowd.

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As the man returns to his seat with the broken instrument in hand, the auctioneer laughs, hands him a box and says, “Now take that and hang that broken thing up.”

One attendee at the event, Rob Bartley, shared it The independent: “Earlier this year, at another event unrelated to this, a Taylor Swift guitar had been sold, so it wasn’t an unheard of item to auction.

“That said… when the guy announced his intention to vandalize it, out came the camera phones.”

Bartley added: “It was unexpected, but not surprising. This part of Texas is strongly conservative and the Biden/Harris administration is not highly regarded.

“Many working-class people who live around me feel that the government is no longer working for us, but against us.”

Swift has drawn the ire of Donald Trump supporters in recent weeks after endorsing his rival Kamala Harris for president.

In the days following Swift’s announcement, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”

Swift’s endorsement brought more than 400,000 visitors to the vote.gov website in less than 24 hours.

“I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post shortly after Harris and Trump met in a televised debate. “If you haven’t already, now is a good time to research the issues at hand and the positions these candidates are taking on the issues that matter most to you.”

She shares a photo of herself with her cat Benjamin Button from last year Time magazine shoot – when the publication named her person of the year – she wrote: “Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight.

“As a voter, I make sure I watch and read everything about their proposed policies and plans for this country.”

The cat appeared to be a reference to Trump’s running mate JD Vance, who said it earlier Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a 2021 interview that the country was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable about their own lives and the choices they’ve made and therefore want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”

Swift also mentioned AI-generated images, previously shared by Trump on Truth Social, that falsely suggested she was supporting him for president, and cited the “dangers of spreading misinformation.”

She wrote: “I was recently made aware that AI of ‘I’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential election was posted on his site.

“It really triggered my fears around AI and the dangers of spreading misinformation.

“It brought me to the conclusion that as a voter I must be very transparent about my actual plans for these elections. The easiest way to fight disinformation is with the truth.”

She added: “I did my research and I made my choice. It is entirely up to you to do your research, and the choice is yours.”