Over the past several years, pop sensation Taylor Swift has become notorious for traveling across the globe in her private jet as she famously took her jet from Tokyo to Las Vegas to support Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce as he competed in Super Bowl LVIII back in February. But it seems that her use of the private jet has made her the target of an attempted crime.
On Thursday morning, the climate change activist group Just Stop Oil posted a video on social media that showed two of its members cutting a hole in the fence, breaking into the airfield, and spray-painting two of the planes at the airfield with orange paint.
The group suggested that it was targeting the private plane Taylor Swift, which they believed had landed at the airfield just a few hours before.
🚨 JUST STOP OIL PAINT PRIVATE JETS HOURS AFTER TAYLOR SWIFT'S LANDS
🔥 Jennifer and Cole cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where @taylorswift13's jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030.
💸 Donate — https://t.co/UwALfVtRmR pic.twitter.com/aORdvUuQmU
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) June 20, 2024
“Jennifer and Cole cut the fence into the private airfield at Stansted where Taylor Swift’s jet is parked, demanding an emergency treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030,” Just Stop Oil said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Just Stop Oil explained the motivation for the vandalism in a statement to The Independent.
“We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions,” the statement said.
“Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’. Billionaires are not untouchable, climate breakdown will affect every single one of us.”
While the group was apparently trying to target Swift’s jet, police indicated that her jet actually was not at the airfield at the time of the vandalism. Still, the incident led to a lot of reactions on social media.
JSO targeting Taylor Swift’s private jet is pretty perfect imo. Firstly, she absolutely deserves to be called out for it, plain and simple. Secondly if it makes Swifties mad, people are going to explain why she deserves it and that kind of exposure is worth its weight in gold.
— Emily✨ (@_emilyoram) June 20, 2024
taylor swift actually suffers from mental health and painting her comfort private jet is likely to exacerbate this, disgraceful from just stop oil
— joe (@spinningjoe) June 20, 2024
Why am I forced to use paper straws and Taylor swift is taking a jet every single day lmao I love this https://t.co/bCmpQT9IHx
— FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 (@paliincali) June 21, 2024
Taylor Swift’s jet is the one thing they could deface that some people might actually support and they didn’t even get the right one https://t.co/LDRjXcOb6F
— 𝕿𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝕿𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖘 (@tavernofterrors) June 21, 2024
NEW: Just Stop Oil climate activists spray paint private jets with orange paint at a UK airport to send a message to Taylor Swift.
One problem.
Taylor Swift's jet wasn't even at the airstrip like the group thought.
The story gets even more ironic. Activist Jennifer Kowalski… pic.twitter.com/clKAjtdIJP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 20, 2024
wish i was a fly on the wall when taylor swift found out about the jet
— Clara Hill 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@clara_ish) June 20, 2024
1) Taylor Swift isn’t even in the Top 30 private jet users. Also, flights are often misattributed to her when she is renting the jet and some flights of jets she no longer owns have been incorrectly attributed to her.
2) Don’t film yourself doing crime, you pillocks. https://t.co/kyprhoBOE7
— Duchess Sexpert (@DuchessSexpert) June 21, 2024
Clearly, they were trying to send a message. And it looks like that mission has been accomplished, even if they didn’t actually vandalize Swift’s jet.
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