Fact Check: NO Evidence Taylor Swift Announced She’ll Move To Canada In Response To 2024 Presidential Election Results
Did Taylor Swift announce she will move to Canada in response to the 2024 U.S. presidential election results, saying “Goodbye US, I Love Canada”? No, that’s not true: The post supplied no evidence she made any such public statement. Independent searches found no credible news media outlets have reported this as of November 22, 2024. The claim was posted to an account with no history of insider knowledge of the pop star’s decisions and statements and was based on material from a satire site.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook on November 21, 2024. The text with two side-by-side images, one with a partial U.S. map with some states highlighted red and others blue, the other of Swift holding a Canadian flag on stage, read:
BREAKING: Taylor Swift Moves to Canada After Leaving the US Following the BIG RED WAVE: ‘Goodbye US, I Love Canada’
This is how the post appeared at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken Fri Nov 22 16:22:00 2024 UTC)
The post did not provide information to corroborate its claim, such as when or where this alleged statement appeared. It also did not include a link to any recording of such a statement, nor to credible news reports that Taylor Swift moved to Canada.
A Google News search (archived here) using keywords from this claim produced no credible news media reports.
A search (archived here) of the X platform for the quote “Goodbye US, I Love Canada,” attributed to Swift did not produce any posts with this quote or making any such announcement.
A Google Lens reverse image search (archived here) of the image in the post revealed that it came from this November 19, 2024, Threads post (archived here) by the account of Your Daily News. Its bio (archived here) states that its content is “satire that you might want to read.”
Swift’s most recent comment about Canada on her verified Instagram account was merely to say in a November 4, 2024, post (archived here) that she would begin the Canada leg of her “The Eras” tour in Toronto soon. Her last Canadian tour date (archived here) is December 8, 2024.
Lead Stories reached out to a representative of Swift for a statement about this claim. This fact check will be updated if a response is received.
At the time this was written, PolitiFact had reviewed the same claim.
Additional Lead Stories fact checks mentioning Taylor Swift can be found here. Additional Lead Stories fact checks mentioning the 2024 U.S. elections can be found here.
