Taylor Swift’s songs are disappearing from Trump-linked social media posts after Team Trump used her music in videos that appeared to poke at the pop superstar directly.
The latest removal hit a TikTok posted earlier this week by Team Trump, the account launched by President Donald Trump’s campaign during his 2024 White House run.
The video showed Trump and first lady Melania Trump from behind as they watched a massive fireworks display.
“Mood because it’s August and Donald Trump is your president,” the on-screen text said.
@teamtrump I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august
The caption made the Swift connection impossible to miss.
“I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song!” the post said.
The video originally featured “August,” Swift’s track from her 2020 album “Folklore.” The current version has no sound. Users who try to access the song now get the message, “The copyright owner hasn’t made this sound available in your country.”
@teamtrump This empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump! #maga #fyp #taylorswift
Another Team Trump video lost access to “Father Figure,” from Swift’s 2025 album “The Life of a Showgirl.”
That November 2025 post used the song over a montage featuring Trump and his youngest son, Barron.
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The lyric “I was your father figure” appeared on screen with the two of them, before the video shifted to footage from Trump’s alleged assassination attempt in July 2024 and displayed the lyric “You pulled the wrong trigger.”
The clip closed with Trump waving from a helicopter to a crowd outside the White House while the lyric “This empire belongs to me” appeared on screen.
“This empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump!” the caption said.
Vanity Fair noted another Swift-themed Team Trump post from last week, a parody of the cover of Swift’s album “Red,” also no longer has music.
The removals landed after years of public tension between Trump and Swift.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump shared an AI-generated image that falsely showed Swift endorsing him. He later denied knowing where the image had come from.
“I don’t know anything about them other than somebody else generated them, I didn’t generate them,” Trump said in a Fox Business interview clip shared on X by Grady Trimble.
“Somebody came out, they said, ‘Oh, look at this.’ These were all made up by other people.”
Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris instead, saying the fake Trump endorsement helped push her to be explicit about her own vote.
“Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site,” Swift said.
“It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.”
Trump answered by calling Swift “a very liberal person” and saying she “seems to always endorse a Democrat.”
“And she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace,” Trump added.
The White House also targeted Swift during the week of her wedding to Travis Kelce, sharing AI posts that echoed imagery from her Madison Square Garden ceremony and her different album-era aesthetics.
Swift is not the only artist whose work has ended up in a Trump post and then drawn a public rebuke.
Noah Kahan objected after Trump and the official White House social media account marked his visit to a General Motors facility in Michigan by using Kahan’s song “American Cars” in a photo and video carousel at the end of July.
The White House TikTok showed Trump signing a Corvette at the facility and used the caption, “Nothing like American cars.”
After fans noticed the song choice, Kahan responded directly under Trump’s post.
“Would never approve of my music being used in support of you or this administration,” the singer commented.
Noah Levine, Kahan’s guitarist and co-writer on the track, was even harsher.
“You fat f—, this song isn’t for you,” Levine wrote.
Kaelan Dorr, deputy assistant to the president and White House deputy communications director, responded on X by referencing another Kahan song.
“Symptoms of [Trump derangement syndrome] apparently include having a northern attitude,” Dorr wrote.
“American Cars” has since been removed from Trump’s Instagram post, though the TikTok post remained live as of publication.
Olivia Rodrigo’s fight with the administration has stretched from music use to abortion politics.
In a clip posted by Daisy Chain Fields, the upcoming all-women music festival where Rodrigo is scheduled to perform, the singer appeared in a Planned Parenthood-focused video set to her song “My Way.”
The video said nearly 30 Planned Parenthood health centers had closed since Trump signed a law “defunding” the organization.
Rodrigo was shown in a tight shot looking irritated. When the camera moved back, she was surrounded by a crowd of serious-looking women who broke into dancing.
“But we’ll never stop fighting for sexual and reproductive health care!!!” the text said.
Rodrigo received Planned Parenthood’s Catalyst of Change Award last year, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson praised her continued involvement in a statement to Variety.
“It means the world to us that Olivia is so deeply engaged in the fight for abortion rights – especially when access to the care Planned Parenthood health centers provide is threatened like never before,” Johnson said.
Months earlier, Rodrigo confronted the White House and Department of Homeland Security after they used “All-American B****” in a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement video urging undocumented immigrants to “self-deport.”
Rodrigo jumped into the comments.
“Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote.
DHS fired back in a statement defending federal law enforcement.
“America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe,” the department said. “We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.”
Rodrigo later told Dazed Magazine that seeing her song used that way enraged her.
“It was so deeply disturbing to see that propaganda, and the fact it was my song in there made me feel even more enraged,” she said. “What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel. I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s OK.”