{"id":118044,"date":"2025-11-04T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:37:07","slug":"white-house-use-taylor-swifts-the-fate-of-ophelia-in-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118044\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Use Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ in TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe official White House TikTok account posted a patriotic video of President Donald Trump<\/a> and his administration \u2014 not unusual, except it was largely based on and soundtracked by Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s No. 1 hit, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe president has been publicly anti-Swift<\/a> in the past, posting on Truth Social earlier this summer: \u201cHas anyone noticed that, since I said \u2018I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,\u2019 she\u2019s no longer \u2018HOT?\u2019\u201d His negative commentary started shortly after Swift endorsed Kamala Harris in September during the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt that point, Swift had already called out Trump for previously using a fake image of her to make it appear that she was endorsing him instead. Trump warned that Swift\u2019s music sales would suffer due to her endorsement, although that proved to be false. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s last public comment about Swift came after she and NFL star Travis Kelce announced their engagement. Trump called Kelce a \u201cgreat player\u201d and Swift a \u201cterrific person.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, I wish them a lot of luck,\u201d Trump said in August. \u201cHe\u2019s a great player, and I think he\u2019s a great guy, and I think that she\u2019s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her endorsement <\/a>of Harris, Swift wrote that the former vice president \u201cfights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to Variety\u2018s request for comment, a White House official replied: \u201cWe made this video because we knew fake news media brands like Variety would breathlessly amplify them. Congrats, you got played.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives for Swift did not immediately return Variety\u2018s request for comment. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the White House\u2019s video below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official White House TikTok account posted a patriotic video of President Donald Trump and his administration \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65,156,157,111,139,69,6456],"class_list":{"0":"post-118044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}