NEWSTaylor Swift Songs Keep Disappearing From Trump TikToks as Fanbases Collide Again
Taylor Swift’s song was removed from a White House TikTok video featuring Donald Trump.
Aug. 18 2026, Published 8:33 a.m. ET
Taylor Swift is not saying anything about President Donald Trump’s latest attempts to use her music, but the songs are disappearing anyway.
The White House’s TikTok account posted a Trump montage Wednesday set to Swift’s “I Bet You Think About Me,” with the caption, “We know you think about us.” By Thursday, the video was still live, but the audio had been removed.
It was the second recent Trump-linked TikTok to lose its Swift soundtrack.
The Muted Videos
Another Donald Trump-linked video lost Taylor Swift’s background music after fans demanded its removal.
Earlier this month, the Trump campaign’s TikTok account posted a video of him and Melania Trump watching fireworks from a balcony on August 3. The text on the video read, “Mood because it’s August and Donald Trump is your president.”
The clip used Swift’s “August” and tagged the singer in the caption: “I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august.”
Swift fans flooded the comments urging that the song be removed. By Sunday, the video was silent. The track was later replaced by a generic country-style pro-Trump song with lyrics including, “I love Trump, I love Trump, Make America Great Again.”
An older Trump-linked video from November using Swift’s “Father Figure” has been muted, as well.
Two Giant Audiences Collide
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Taylor Swift fans and Donald Trump supporters collided across the social media platform.
“These clashes go viral because both sides have audiences that are already organized,” said Amore Philip, founder of Apples and Oranges Public Relations.
“Taylor Swift has one of the most mobilized fanbases in the world and Trump has one of the most mobilized political bases in the world,” she explained. “Put them in contact and you are not creating a story, you are connecting two existing distribution networks. The content almost does not matter at that point.”
A Feud That Keeps Paying
Taylor Swift remained silent as her songs disappeared from the White House’s TikTok videos.
Swift has not commented publicly on either recent TikTok removal. She has, however, been openly critical of Trump in the past, including in 2020 when she accused him on social media of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency” and promised to “vote you out.”
The recurring music dispute continued to fuel attention from both fanbases.
In 2024, she endorsed Kamala Harris. Trump later wrote, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” on Truth Social, then continued needling her after returning to office.
“Within a day, nobody is talking about the original post, they are talking about the reaction to the reaction,” Philip noted.
“That is the tell that a story has stopped being news and started being culture, and culture cycles are much harder to shut down,” she added.
“Every round reminds Swift's audience what she stands for and reminds his audience who the opposition is,” she said. “This is a feud that pays both invoices.”
