Brianna LaPaglia Wears Red 'Make America Sexy Again' Hat amid Boyfriend Zach Bryan's Taylor Swift Controversy

Mar. 15, 2025

Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia at the Grammy Awards in February 2024.Photo:Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty

Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty

Brianna LaPagliais embracing all things red.

The social media star, 25, posted an Instagram gallery on Thursday, Sept. 19, highlighting recent photos — all featuring the color red. TheBFFspodcasthost included photos of herself in a red dress, a bouquet of red roses, a red pool table and red Mary Jane shoes.

LaPaglia also included a selfie wearing a bright red baseball hat emblazoned with, “Make America Sexy Again,” seemingly a play on former PresidentDonald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” merchandise.  “I think I like red,” she simply captioned the post.

She shared the photos hours after her boyfriend, country starZach Bryan, apologized for his controversial tweet aboutKanye WestandTaylor Swift.

Brianna LaPaglia in an Instagram photo shared on Sept. 19, 2024.Brianna LaPaglia/Instagram

Brianna LaPaglia/Instagram

TheGreat American Bar Scenesinger, 28, compared the two artists in a now-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter).

“eagles > chiefs. Kanye > Taylor," Bryan tweeted on Sept. 17, perPopCrave. The tweet notably mentions the Kansas City Chiefs, the team Swift’s boyfriendTravis Kelceplays for.

Bryan’s Instagram account remains active. He also followed up the X post with four Instagram Stories with Ye (formerly Kanye West) songs, including “Good Life,” featuringT-Pain, “I Thought About Killing You,” “All Mine” and “Ghost Town” featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR,Billboardreported.

He continued posting to Instagram to “break his silence” and issued an apology in his Instagram Stories. In his apology, he posted Swift’s songs “Fortnight” featuringPost Maloneand “The Albatross” fromThe Tortured Poets Department, as well as “Castles Crumbling” featuringHayley WilliamsfromFearless (Taylor’s Version).

“For the record guys I wasn’t coming for Taylor the other night," Bryan wrote in the Instagram Stories. “I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong. I know there’s a lot of stuff that clouds around Ye and I was speaking purely musically.”

He continued: “I love Taylor’s music and pray you guys know I’m human and tweet stupid things often. Hope one day I can explain this to her. Twitter gets me in trouble too much and I’d say it’s best I stay off it. I’m sorry to any Taylor fans I pissed off or let down. Love you guys and I’m trying my best!”

Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia.Brianna LaPaglia/Instagram

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“You should it’s a great album,” wrote one user. “That’s taylor swifts' favorite color too,” another added.

source: people.com