A Texas man pays $4,000 for a “signed” Taylor Swift guitar at auction, then smashes it with a hammer

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A man in Texas paid $4,000 for a so-called “signed” Taylor Swift guitar, only to promptly smash 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. The guitar was one of many items auctioned off along with tickets to George Strait and Chris Stapleton, an African safari, a dove hunt and a trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.

In a statement about this The IndependentOne of the organizers said the Swift guitar was “a real signed 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, which is covered in images of Swift from her record-breaking Eras Tour, and a gavel.

The man then grabs both of them and hits the surface of the guitar with the hammer, to loud cheers from the audience.

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

One event attendee, Rob Bartley, said The Independent: “Earlier this year, a Taylor Swift guitar was sold at another unrelated event, so it wasn't an unusual item to be auctioned off.

“That is…when the man announced his intention to destroy it, camera phones came out.”

Bartley added: “It was unexpected but not surprising. This part of Texas is heavily conservative and the Biden/Harris administration is not well respected.

“Many working-class people who live around me feel that the government is no longer working for us but is working 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 voting 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 learn about the current issues and these candidates’ positions on the issues that matter most to you.”

We're sharing a photo of her with her cat Benjamin Button from last year Time When the magazine 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 I can about their proposed policies and plans for this country.”

The cat appeared to be a reference to Trump's Vice President JD Vance telling him Fox News Host Tucker Carlson said in a 2021 interview that the country was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they've made and therefore want to make the rest of the country unhappy too.” .”

Swift also mentioned AI-generated images that Trump had previously shared on Truth Social, falsely implying that she was endorsing him for president and pointing out the “dangers of spreading misinformation.”

She wrote: “It was recently brought to my attention that an AI was posted on his website that showed 'I' falsely endorsing Donald Trump's candidacy for president.

“It really raised my fears about AI and the dangers of spreading misinformation.

“I came to the conclusion that as a voter I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election. The easiest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.”

She added: “I did my research and made my choice. Your research is entirely yours, and the choice is yours.”