{"id":678375,"date":"2026-07-07T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678375\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:13:09","slug":"trump-takes-fresh-swipe-at-taylor-swift-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678375\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes fresh swipe at Taylor Swift | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed to be \u2019No. 1\u2019 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tiktok\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>, saying he had surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a news segment about the social media app\u2019s purported dangers during a White House press conference on Monday (6 July), Trump said he had learned that he is \u201cNo. 1 on it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was announced about two days ago, the new numbers just came out, you know who the number one person in Tic Tac is by far? Trump, me. I&#8217;m No. 1,\u201d he said as he misnamed the social media app. <\/p>\n<p>Trump then claimed that \u201cTaylor Swift was No 11. I\u2019m No. 1 in TikTok by far.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The US president has around 16.6 million followers on TikTok while Swift has approximately 33.5 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump claimed to be \u2019No. 1\u2019 on TikTok, saying he had surpassed Taylor Swift on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33792,6491,96,33794,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bestof","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-topix","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}