{"id":32255,"date":"2026-08-08T10:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32255"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:33:47","slug":"taylor-swift-song-august-removed-from-trump-tiktok-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32255","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Song &#8216;August&#8217; Removed From Trump TikTok Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA TikTok video that included <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s song \u201cAugust\u201d posted to the account for <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s campaign four days ago has now had the sound removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe caption on the \u201cTeam Trump\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@teamtrump\/video\/7669818901139574029?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7659835634052810270\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok video<\/a> reads, \u201cI\u2019m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august.\u201d The video shows Donald and Melania Trump standing on a balcony watching fireworks with the text, \u201cMood because it\u2019s August and Donald Trump is your president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFans began noticing Friday evening that the Swift song, from her 2020 album \u201cFolklore,\u201d was removed from the TikTok. In the U.S. version of the TikTok app, a message on the video reads: \u201cThe copyright owner hasn\u2019t made this sound available in your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Variety<\/em> has reached out to representatives for Swift and Trump for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe @TeamTrump TikTok account, which has 14 million followers, was set up ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It has continued to post videos regularly since Trump was elected for a second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA Team Trump video that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@teamtrump\/video\/7569701713712631095\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">included Swift\u2019s song \u201cFather Figure,\u201d<\/a> posted Nov. 6, 2025, also has had the song removed. However, one posted a day ago with a version of Swift\u2019s \u201cRed\u201d still has the audio track available as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn September 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/donald-trump-i-hate-taylor-swift-truth-social-1236144531\/\">Trump posted \u201cI HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on social media after the singer shared on Instagram that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-debate-1236140420\/\">she intended to vote for Kamala Harris for U.S. president<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,\u201d Swift wrote in part in the Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA month prior to that, Trump had posted <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/donald-trump-falsely-claims-taylor-swift-endorsed-ai-images-1236110583\/\">AI-generated images falsely claiming that Swift<\/a>\u00a0endorsed him for president, including one portraying the singer as Uncle Sam overlaid with a message that said \u201cTaylor wants you to vote for\u00a0Donald Trump.\u201d At the time, Trump suggested in an interview with Fox Business that <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/digital\/news\/donald-trump-taylor-swift-sue-over-fake-ai-images-endorsement-1236115104\/\">he wasn\u2019t concerned that Swift would sue him<\/a> over his posting of the fake images, saying they \u201cwere all made up by other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TikTok video that included Taylor Swift\u2018s song \u201cAugust\u201d posted to the account for Donald Trump\u2018s campaign four days ago has now had the sound removed. The caption on the \u201cTeam Trump\u201d TikTok video reads, \u201cI\u2019m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august.\u201d The video shows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Donald-Trump-Taylor-Swift-Fake-AI-Images.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}