White House Removes Taylor Swift Song From Trump TikTok Video After Hours
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Updated · Rolling Stone · Aug 13
White House Removes Taylor Swift Song From Trump TikTok Video After Hours
3 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · Aug 13
Summary
Within hours, the White House muted Taylor Swift’s “I Bet You Think About Me” in an official TikTok video showing Donald Trump greeting people, after posting it with the caption “We know you think about us.”
The removal follows an Aug. 8 clash in which Swift pulled “August” from the Team Trump TikTok account, and other Swift songs used in older Trump campaign videos were also muted afterward.
The White House and Trump campaign have been using social media clips with popular music to cast Trump and Melania Trump positively, often in a deliberately provocative, internet-native style.
Bad Bunny recently faced a similar episode when the White House used “La Mudanza” in a video; that track was later muted, and Trump-linked accounts have not used his music again.