The TikTok account Group Trump was launched by Donald Trump’s marketing campaign in late July 2024 and has used audio of Taylor Swift tracks, amongst different common songs, since at the least final 12 months. Now Swift’s group seems to have lastly taken motion.
Final week the account posted an AI-looking clip of Donald and Melania Trump watching fireworks with audio of the Folklore monitor “August.” The textual content on the video learn, “Temper as a result of it’s August and Donald Trump is your president.” The caption was even trollier: “I’m certain @Taylor Swift goes to be tremendous excited we used her tune!” with the hashtags #taylorswift, #maga, and #august.
She was not excited, and on Friday the audio was muted.
Group Trump subsequently used audio from a dwell model of “Crimson” in a publish parodying the pop star’s album of the identical title. “Do you know Taylor Swift wrote an entire album in regards to the coloration of the Republican Get together,” learn the textual content over an image of the president. “Crimson (Donald Trump’s Model).” The caption put a Trump-themed spin on Swift songs from her Crimson album, like “Every little thing Has Modified (At Our Southern Border).”
That sound was then eliminated, too.
In truth, thus far this weekend, audio from at the least 10 Swift songs has been faraway from posts by Group Trump and The White Home’s account.
Trump and Swift have had a contentious relationship for years. In August 2024, Trump shared AI-generated photos falsely suggesting that Swift had endorsed him for president. The next month, on his social media platform Fact Social, he posted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” after Swift stated she deliberate to vote for Kamala Harris for US president.
Swift is not the one common artist Group Trump has been trolling. Final month, the White Home’s TikTok and Instagram accounts, the latter in a collaboration with @POTUS, used Noah Kahan’s The Nice Divide tune “American Vehicles” to soundtrack a video of the president visiting a Basic Motors facility in Michigan. The people-pop star commented on that Instagram, “Would by no means approve of my music being utilized in help of you or this administration.” The audio was then faraway from each the Instagram and TikTok posts.
The Group Trump TikTok responded by overlaying a screengrab of Kahan’s touch upon a video of Trump together with the textual content “And for that cause we shall be posting Noah Kahan Music.” The audio is an unauthorized/user-uploaded clip of Kahan’s “Orbiter,” and at the moment it is nonetheless up.
