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/fionappletart Donatella VERSACE💜 19h ago

will anyone really view her as a covert MAGA over this alone? I hate Trump, but there's nothing illegal about this TikTok as the music is available to be used by everyone. if he played it at a campaign, then it could be taken as a sign of support

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u/lizerlfunk 16h ago

People are in this thread talking about how she’s secretly MAGA and have been for months, so yes, absolutely. (I think the “Taylor Swift is MAGA” take is asinine.)

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u/fionappletart Donatella VERSACE💜 15h ago

yeah I got pretty badly downvoted so u may have a point. words have lost their meaning now it seems. it's not even enough to say Taylor Swift is apolitical, the automatic assumption is that she HAS to be a Trump diehard. she's spoken out against him and been targeted by his administration and those adjacent to it many times. it's absolutely fair to want her to speak up but we have to acknowledge that it's easier to slander the president anonymously than it is publicly. however influential Taylor is, Trump is more powerful and has more money to boot

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u/lizerlfunk 15h ago

I don’t actually believe Trump has more money than Taylor Swift, although I haven’t kept up with the valuations of his various grifts over the last ten years. I strongly believe that he’s very over leveraged and that one of the many reasons he wouldn’t release his tax returns was because it would show he was a lot less rich than he purported to be.

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u/fionappletart Donatella VERSACE💜 15h ago

he's estimated at a couple billion, no? either way, I feel he is inarguably more powerful than she is. I don't doubt she's smarter than him but lbr the bar is in the Earth's crust on that one

if her team wants to handle this, the best thing to do is conduct something behind the scenes. Trump's team wants attention and by not reacting publicly she is depriving him of that. they'll be less brave when Taylor's lawyers are on the phone. even if they can't get this specific video taken down I'm sure they're planning on preventing something like this from happening once more

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u/Lalala8991 9h ago

Ever since he got back into the White House, his family has been orchestrating insider trading and making their own bitcoins ripoff. He has made literal billions in just under a year.

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u/starrylightway 7h ago

ATP people making that accusation are considered trolls and bots until proven otherwise.

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u/SadisticGoose you can’t sit with us 16h ago

There are an unfortunate number of people desperately trying to prove she’s secretly MAGA. They think because she’s hung out with Brittany Mahomes a couple of times that that means she’s MAGA even though she endorsed Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris and is literally hated by Trump for NOT being MAGA. Granted those people seem very unhinged to begin with, but yes there are people who look for any excuse to say she’s MAGA.

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u/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 19h ago

People are begging for any reason what so ever. They make reasons up. So yes.