Taylor Swift songs removed from White House, Trump campaign posts
Multiple Team Trump TikTok posts lost Taylor Swift songs after the campaign used them to taunt her, leaving the videos without audio.
- On Friday, August 7, 2026, TikTok muted the audio of Taylor Swift's song 'august' on a Team Trump campaign video, replacing the soundtrack with a notice that 'The copyright owner hasn't made this sound available in your country.'
- Team Trump's campaign account featured the track in a video showcasing President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watching fireworks, with a caption sarcastically suggesting Swift would be 'super excited' about the use.
- Additional tracks including 'Father Figure' and 'Opalite' were similarly removed from Trump-related TikTok posts, with platform notifications citing copyright owner unavailability affecting multiple videos across the account.
- Swift's unique ownership of her masters and publishing rights allows her to restrict music usage unlike artists with split rights, a capability fans celebrated as a strategic victory over the campaign.
- Neither Swift, the campaign, nor TikTok has publicly confirmed whether removals resulted from a formal copyright claim or automated platform enforcement, leaving the precise enforcement mechanism unclear.
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Several Taylor Swift songs have been removed from TikTok publications linked to President Donald Trump. The bill affects both the Team Trump campaign team account and the official White House account. The “August” video runs out of sound One of the most recent videos, released in early August by Team Trump, showed Donald and Melania Trump contemplating fireworks with the song “August”, from the album Folklore (2020), in the background. The super…
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In response to this summer's Swift bashing by the president's collaborators on TikTok and Instagram, the artist preferred to cut the whistle to his detractors, notably removing his music "August" from a mockery publication.
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