Forbes: Canadian Singer Doesn't Outright Deny MAGA Association

WNBA star Sophie Cunningham told ESPN that men didn't belong in women's sports, and now she's "MAGA Barbie." Here she is posing with bad girl Riley Gaines and XX-XY founder Jennifer Sey—and conservatives got mad when Colin Kaepernick got involved in politics.

WNBA player Sophie Cunningham poses with right-wing influencer Riley Gaines and former Levi’s executive Jennifer Sey after the Fever vs. Lynx game today. pic.twitter.com/aQFX9aOVio
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) August 2, 2026

It's the LGBTQ community—mostly the T part—that has made men playing in women's sports and sharing women's locker rooms and showers a political issue. It was a cultural issue until trans rights activists started demanding legislation mandating that men be allowed in women's spaces.

Because protecting women’s sports and spaces is ‘right wing’ or something.
— Rocco Tommaso (@RoccoTommaso02) August 2, 2026

Sadly, it's become a political issue, with Democrats choosing the wrong side of an 80/20 issue once again.

I've never heard of Tate McRae. I honestly don't know if she's a singer or an actor or what. But Forbes has found it its duty to inform its readers that though McRae may be distancing herself from MAGA, she hasn't outright denied it.

Tate McRae Distances Herself From MAGA Association—But Doesn’t Outright Denyhttps://t.co/XwbHtxaGDi pic.twitter.com/JhrmEBbWCZ
— Forbes (@Forbes) August 4, 2026

Let's see what the fuss is about. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs writes:

Grammy nominee Tate McRae is continuing to take heat for her perceived association with the MAGA movement, after she refused to outright deny the speculation in a recent Variety interview in which she pointed to her support of LGBTQ+ and women's causes and said she thinks it's “pretty obvious” what side of the aisle she stands on.
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The singer has since been slammed for refusing to outright state that she’s not affiliated with President Donald Trump’s Make American Great Again movement, with online commenters suggesting her silence speaks “volumes.”
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McRae, who is Canadian, has been dodging online speculation she's associated with MAGA for more than a year, since she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song by duetting with Morgan Wallen on “What I Want." Wallen has never publicly endorsed MAGA, but his music is widely considered to be "Trump-coded," while he's strongly associated with conservative audiences and has a history of "racial behavior.” McRae is also rumored to have been dating New Jersey Devils hockey player Jack Hughes since last November. The athlete, who also played for the U.S. Olympic hockey team last winter, was at the center of a controversy that saw the men’s team members laugh at a sexist comment about the women’s team made by Trump.

What's a history of "racial behavior," exactly, and why is it in quotation marks? She did a duet with a singer whose music is widely considered (by whom?) "Trump-coded." Oh, and the hockey connection.

Mark Hemingway makes a great point:

The entire US media is running stories about “The Return of the Red Scare” right now but has unironically done this to every merely perceived right-leaning celebrity for decades. https://t.co/0JrNSwxyfl
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 4, 2026

Weren't you a reputable and serious publication at one point? What happened?
— dan 🌲🇺🇸 (@Dan_SonOfCarl) August 4, 2026

I didn't expect you guys to turn into the Spanish Inquisition...
— Vince Lyle (@VinceLyle2161) August 4, 2026

Do you want some sort of grovelling apology from her. Unlike you guys some people actually have some fucking self respect.
— unholy watcher (@someonecnx1) August 4, 2026

The left : “McCarthy was evil!”

Also the left: “Tate McRae will not disavow MAGA!”
— The Fool (@lears_coxcomb) August 4, 2026

Far Left Forbes writers distance themselves from reality by trying again to smear normal people with common sense beliefs.
— Old Sport (@OldSport_X) August 4, 2026

That headline is a crime. Pure Maoism.
— GeronL (@geronl) August 4, 2026

Pretty gross from Forbes. But at least based on the article title she seems to be an intelligent woman with a good sense of right and wrong.

That same title makes Forbes look like prissy activists.
— SwissArmyTenor (@SwissArmyTenor) August 4, 2026