Every August Taylor Swift’s ‘august’ goes viral, but now the song is in the news for another reason. Donald Trump’s team has used it to troll Taylor on TikTok, accompanying a video of Trump and Melania watching fireworks. “I’m sure Taylor Swift will be super excited for us to use her song,” read the text accompanying the video. Now, the video has no sound.
He hasn’t been the only one. In another post, Trump’s team pulled ‘Red’ to make another joke at Taylor’s expense: “Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote an entire album about the color of the Republican Party?” Song titles were also made up from the idea. As in the case of ‘august’, the audio has disappeared.
So, in a way, Taylor has trolled them back. He has not said anything publicly, but the audios of his songs have been disappearing from videos on Trump and the White House accounts. And it is curious because Swift has long been linked to MAGA by her husband, Travis Kelce, and because until now she had not seemed too concerned about the use of her songs by the White House. In fact, after their wedding, the White House itself had already mocked the couple.
Taylor is not the only one who is fed up with Donald Trump and his antics. In recent weeks, Katy Perry has protested the use of ‘Firework’ in a White House video related to the Iran war, while Sabrina Carpenter also rejected the use of her music in Trump content.
