Swifties dig up Travis Kelce’s old tweets and still love him: ‘Make him president’
Like political operatives researching the opposition — or like people who have way too much time on their hands — Taylor Swift fans have been poking around Travis Kelce’s old tweets, many from his college days.
And what they have found is shocking.
This one time, well, a few times, he misspelled Chipotle.
And this other time, he used the hashtag @shmackin when referring to the fettuccine with chicken Alfredo at Olive Garden.
See, kids. This is why Mom and Dad and your college adviser tell you to be careful about what you post on social media.
Because one day you might grow up and date a superstar and their fans will dredge up every misspelled word, every shoot-from-the-hip quip, every inane observation you’ve shared and then repost them for the world to see and for the media to write about.
In Kelce’s case, Swifties say Kelce passed this test. Though some have wondered whether he, or someone else, has scrubbed more nefarious musings — something-something about women’s weight? — from his social media history.
This April 2010 tweet, for instance, cited by The Washington Post, seems to have disappeared.
“Happy easter to all!!! #shoutout to Jesus for takin one for the team.... haha.”
Heaven only knows where it went.
Swifties, though, still approve of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end as a suitor for their queen.
“Swifties looking at Travis’s old tweets to find something problematic but all they are finding is that this man loves chipotle, can’t spell, and has no thoughts just vibes. A king,” a Swiftie named Victoria posted on X, formerly Twitter.
“I think Travis is a good dude because if there were a serious red flag on his character, Taylor’s people woulda had that worldwide within about five minutes of the first tabloid article about them together,” another X user wrote.
“Instead they found ‘chicken alfredo.’”
“The window into Travis’s college years is enlightening. Kelce was just a dude who, like the rest of us, hated it when his phone was about to die,” Sports Illustrated observes. “His spelling was never perfect, but hey, are any of us?
“Fans across social media loved the wholesome look into Kelce’s past.”
Kelce’s trove of “wholesome” tweets on his @tkelce X account — he currently has 1 million followers — includes this one where he fussed about his football player physique — “Bout to go goat-cart racing... Haha hope I fit in the cart!!”
The tweets that grabbed the most attention contained misspelled words, mostly from his days at the University of Cincinnati, 2008-12. Swifites had fun with this tweet from 2011: “I just gave a squirle a peice of bread and it straight smashed all of it!!!! I had no idea they ate bread like that!! Haha #crazy.”
Chipolte — oops, Chipotle — gave him trouble more than once.
“Went from class to therapy, now I need some #chipolte and then I’m off to check out my new apt!!” Kelce wrote in April 2011.
This tweet went viral as social media users recently retweeted it over and again: “I hate it when the #Chipotle line is damn near to the door.... Smh.”
“I’m fr i’m tears over his commitment to this spelling,” one X user wrote on Tuesday with screenshots of several Kelce tweets where he wrote “Chipolte,” as we just did in typing that the first time.
A tweet from August 2010, another from Kelce’s college days, reflects him musing about the manifestation magic of the moon.
“The moon looks crazy tonight... Imma chill out here for a little and just visualize my success n vibe to the scenary,” he tweeted.
A Swift fan named Matt wrote Wednesday on X: “We gotta make him president.”
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