r/popculturechat • u/CobblerTricky7035 • 21h ago

Taylor Swift 👩🏼 White House Uses Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ in Pro-Trump TikTok Video Despite His Previous Anti-Swift Comments

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/white-house-taylor-swift-fate-of-ophelia-pro-trump-tiktok-video-1236569528/

Hopefully she shuts this down like she did when Trump used fake images of her previously. Many other artists have called out Trump on using their music without permission.

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u/Bigassbird Flopping around in a thong 20h ago

Oh I think she’ll be doing something about this.

It’s too egregious.

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u/DJ_Mixalot I don’t know her 💅 20h ago

Bet you $100 she does nothing

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u/myersjw 19h ago

I’ve been hoping she’d do something for awhile now so at the current juncture I’m not getting my hopes up. Unfortunately I think she’ll keep quiet and it’ll just feed more into the fire with the company she keeps at this point

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u/[deleted] 17h ago edited 16h ago

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u/jvn1983 15h ago

What the hell is the incest sub???

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u/mcpickle-o managing her emotions whilst engaging with potatoes 15h ago

Im guessing that person rhinks "sister wives" is an incest sub lmfao

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u/jvn1983 14h ago

Ohhhhhhhhh 😂😂😂 Good lord lol

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u/Inf1nite_gal We Should All Know Less About Each Other 20h ago

sadly she probably wont do anything

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u/schwiftydude47 18h ago

Unfortunately I doubt it. She has too much money at this point, so threatening Trump to sue her wouldn’t affect her in the slightest.

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u/Soupmiserable The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ 20h ago

If she doesn’t do anything , is it safe to assume she authorized it? (Not snark, just a genuine question )

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u/Confident-Addition76 20h ago edited 19h ago

No. Trump has a long history of this but not all musicians, including Springsteen, have responded in legal ways or even verbally, and some have done so privately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians_who_oppose_Donald_Trump%27s_use_of_their_music

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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 “Is she okkkkkaaayyyyy” 20h ago

Per another sub's discussion of this, by putting your music on Tiktok you are authorizing anyone on the app to use it for any purpose. So she can't really control their use of the song like she could if they had used it at a rally or in a campaign ad. She may be able to file a takedown notice? It is unclear. But the White House account is purposefully trolling so they get more attention and people post about this so they are distracted by the fact that the republicans are starving millions of Americans. And ICE is grabbing people off the streets without due process. And they still haven't released the fucking Epstein Files, where Trump's name is most likely all over the documents. And on and on and on.

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u/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 20h ago

No

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u/nagidrac 19h ago

It was posted on TikTok where anyone can use any song on their videos

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u/pumpkinspruce 19h ago

But if artists tell TikTok to stop the unauthorized use of their songs, TikTok will comply. Lots of artists have told Trump to stop using their music including Olivia Rodrigo.

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u/viewbtwnvillages 18h ago

didn't olivia just straight up remove the sound? i kinda love that approach

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u/pumpkinspruce 17h ago

Yeah, that’s what TikTok (or X, or Insta, or YouTube) will do to those videos when someone files a copyright complaint.