According to an employee who worked in Donald Trump’s White House, she was informed she may be fired for playing Taylor Swift around the time the singer criticized the president.

Olivia Troye, a homeland security, counterterrorism, and coronavirus expert, spoke with Chris Hayes of MSNBC about her stint as a Trump administration employee.

Troye, a former Vice President Mike Pence adviser, said she went to her White House office after a tense discussion concerning COVID-19.

‘I remember a moment in the spring where I came back very angry after a meeting where I lost an argument with someone [over] something I didn’t agree with related to the pandemic, and I came back and was playing Taylor Swift very loud in my office that night,’ she told MSNBC.

‘And I had a colleague knock on the door and he said “are you trying to get fired?” and I was super confused about that and I was like “for being blunt in meetings or for what?”‘

She said he replied, “I don’t think she’s a fan of Trump’s,” meaning Swift, and added, “If someone hears that … you should really watch your back. You should be careful on that.”

Swift backed a Democratic Senate candidate in 2018 and was cited in a Netflix documentary in early 2020 stating she wishes she had spoken out against Trump sooner.

Troye informed Hayes that the scenario was “astonishing” and that she should be able to “listen to whatever music I want.”

“Taylor Swift wasn’t going to win me any favors,” a coworker cautioned Troye, according to Insider.

“I sort of chuckled … but then slowly turned down the volume fully knowing he was right. The last thing I needed was an excuse for someone to use against me and undermine my work. I had seen it happen to others. It was an environment where you had to be very guarded about everything,” Troye told Insider.

Ms Troye’s assertion was based on an earlier story in The Atlantic that Mr Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows had wanted to talk with a high civil servant because someone lower down in the department had supposedly liked Swift’s Instagram post supporting Joe Biden.

Mark Meadows apparently received a phone call about it while attending the Supreme Court confirmation of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett, despite the fact that the worker loved all of Swift’s tweets, regardless of whether they had anything to do with politics.

The Swift instances, according to Ms Troye, are only one example of senior Trump advisers’ “Gestapo”-like behavior, in which they expect full allegiance from their subordinates.