{"id":42542,"date":"2026-08-13T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42542"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:13:37","slug":"taylor-swift-removes-another-song-from-white-house-tiktok-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42542","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Removes Another Song From White House 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 id=\"\">\n<p>The Trump-affiliated account attempted to use &#8220;I Bet You Think About Me&#8221; in latest antagonistic post<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe White House is once again trying to provoke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Wednesday, the official White House TikTok account posted a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@whitehouse\/video\/7673175476810026253?_r=1&amp;_t=ZP-98pdZn9i3uo\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@whitehouse\/video\/7673175476810026253?_r=1&amp;_t=ZP-98pdZn9i3uo\">new video <\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> glad-handing around with Swift\u2019s 2021 vault \u201cI Bet You Think About Me\u201d as the soundtrack. \u201cWe know you think about us,\u201d read the caption, referencing the track\u2019s lyrics. Within a few hours, the song was quietly muted and removed from the video, although it remains available in other clips and as a sound on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt\u2019s the latest video antagonizing the pop superstar in what has become an <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-bad-bunny-trump-remove-tik-tok-songs-1235606235\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/taylor-swift-bad-bunny-trump-remove-tik-tok-songs-1235606235\/\">ongoing saga<\/a>. Days before, on Aug. 8, Swift <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-removes-august-team-trump-tiktok-video-1235605878\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-removes-august-team-trump-tiktok-video-1235605878\/\">removed<\/a> her song \u201cAugust\u201d from a post by the Team Trump TikTok account, Trump\u2019s official campaign page. \u201cI\u2019m sure Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song,\u201d that video\u2019s caption read. After Swift removed \u201cAugust,\u201d she also muted other songs that were featured in past videos posted by the Team Trump account last fall.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSince Trump took office during his second term, he and his administration have been using social media as part of their communication strategy. The propaganda-like, rage-bait-style clips often lean into internet culture and use popular music to make light of Trump\u2019s most egregious actions, like his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/reverse-migration-trump-immigration-1235393131\/\">immigration policy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-claims-iran-war-end-timeline-1235575154\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-claims-iran-war-end-timeline-1235575154\/\">foreign policy<\/a>. To date, the videos that used Swift\u2019s songs have solely focused on painting the president, and his wife, in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNotably, Swift has not issued a statement about the song removals following in the footsteps of Bad Bunny, who recently dealt with the same issue when the White House employed his track \u201cLa Mudanza\u201d in a particualrly <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/white-house-video-bad-bunny-la-mudanza-deportation-irony-1235601562\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/white-house-video-bad-bunny-la-mudanza-deportation-irony-1235601562\/\">tone-deaf video<\/a>. A few days later, the song was muted on that sole video without comment from Bad Bunny. Since then, Trump-affiliated social media accounts have not attempted to use the Puerto Rican superstar\u2019s music in videos again.<\/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>The Trump-affiliated account attempted to use &#8220;I Bet You Think About Me&#8221; in latest antagonistic post The White House is once again trying to provoke Taylor Swift. On Wednesday, the official White House TikTok account posted a new video of Donald Trump glad-handing around with Swift\u2019s 2021 vault \u201cI Bet You Think About Me\u201d as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/taylor-swift-trump-music.jpg?w=1600&h=900&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42542","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=42542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}