Tate Mcrae Was Asked Point-Blank About Trump and MAGA and Said It’s “Pretty Obvious What Kind Of Person I Am”
A carefully worded non-answer about her politics is exactly what sent fans looking for one. The rest of the case against her is a country duet and a hockey player.
The speculation isn’t built on anything McRae has said. It’s built on two people near her.
At 23, she landed her first Number One when “What I Want,” her duet with Morgan Wallen, topped the Billboard Hot 100. Wallen, 33, was filmed in 2021 spitting out a racial slur while drunk, then rebounded into a stadium-filling act after the music that got pulled came back. McRae later told Rolling Stone she just wanted to make a country song and “didn’t realize how much a song would be connected to all the other factors, and it really shocked me.” She’s never met him in person.
The other thread is Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils center she’s been romantically linked to since late last year. Hughes scored the overtime goal that won the U.S. men’s team its first hockey gold in 46 years. During the locker room celebration in Milan, Trump called in on speakerphone and joked he’d “probably be impeached” if he didn’t also invite the women’s team to his State of the Union. The players laughed. The clip went viral, the men went to the White House anyway, and the women’s team declined, citing academic and professional commitments.
“No matter what your views are, we’re super excited to go to the White House,” Hughes said. “We’re proud to be Americans, and that’s so patriotic.” He later told the Daily Mail that people were “just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing.”
Against all that, McRae points to where she puts her money and her platform: the Trevor Project, which works to prevent suicide among young LGBTQ+ people, and the gender equality group Global Fund for Women. On Hughes, she told Variety she tries “to keep my relationships as sacred and private as possible,” and that outside noise “just puts me in a bad mood.”
McRae appeared on the cover of Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue this week, where she was pressed on Trump directly. She’d rather “say my piece through organizations I support,” she said.
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