{"id":731649,"date":"2026-08-08T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731649\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:34:08","slug":"taylor-swift-blocks-trump-from-using-her-music-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731649\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Blocks Trump from Using Her Music on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a> has moved to block Donald Trump from using her music on TikTok, disabling the audio on a recent \u201cTeam Trump\u201d post that featured her song \u201caugust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, TikTok accounts associated with Trump \u2014 including the White House\u2019s official account \u2014 have used Swift\u2019s music in their posts. In addition to disabling the Team Trump video featuring \u201caugust,\u201d Swift has muted previous posts from the president\u2019s staff that used her songs \u201cOpalite\u201d and \u201cFather Figure.\u201d Another White House video, posted on the Fourth of July and featuring \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d remained available as of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what ultimately prompted Swift to take action, but the latest Team Trump post practically invite a response. Its caption read, \u201cI\u2019m sure @TaylorSwift is going to be super excited we used her song!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/09\/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">endorsed<\/a> Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 presidential election, citing in part Trump\u2019s previous use of AI-generated images that <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/08\/donald-trump-claims-taylor-swifts-endorsement-garbage-ai-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">falsely<\/a> suggested she supported him.<\/p>\n<p>Consequence has reached out to Swift\u2019s representatives for more information.<\/p>\n<p>While numerous artists have denounced Trump\u2019s use of their music in social media posts, they often have limited recourse because the relevant rights are divided among record labels, publishers, and other rights holders that may have existing licensing agreements with social platforms. Swift, however, fully controls the rights to her masters and publishing, giving her greater ability to have her music removed from platforms or restrict how it is used.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This article has been updated to note that Swift has also disabled audio for two other TikTok videos associated with Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@teamtrump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@teamtrump?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@teamtrump<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! <a title=\"taylorswift\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/taylorswift?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#taylorswift<\/a> <a title=\"maga\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/maga?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#maga<\/a> <a title=\"august\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/august?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#august<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c som original - \u2e06\u2e09  \u0f7c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/som-original-7397954147541027590?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c som original \u2013 \u2e06\u2e09  \u0f7c<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has moved to block Donald Trump from using her music on TikTok, disabling the audio on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731649","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=731649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}