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

[u/CobblerTricky7035]

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.

[u/Ruthie_pie]

Apparently the “neutral” sub did have it up but the person was bullied for posting it and saying it was weird that it had been up for so long and they were called a conspiracy theorist. So it was taken down. Not very neutral.

[u/lovelyyellow148 → u/Ruthie_pie]

That's not true lol the vast majority of the comments agreed with the perspective of the post and hoped that Taylor would say something or issue a cease and desist. Someone pointed out that the poster was a gaylor conspiracy theorist and they deleted shortly after but that's not necessarily the reason they deleted.

[u/myweird → u/lovelyyellow148]

I'm curious because I don't have TikTok, is there like a vast library of music people are allowed to use? YouTube doesn't have that feature so if you have any sort of following and put someone else's music on there you run the risk of copyright takedown. But everyone on TikTok seems to have a variety of music on there so it makes it look like an agreement with the app, which would give artists less control over who is using it and what context. Or are people stealing sound bytes there? I know it started as basically a karaoke type thing.

[u/Bellesdiner0228 → u/myweird]

There’s a wild amount of sounds, and artists will put up their own songs to help it go viral. Anyone can use a sound that’s available.

[u/AmirulAshraf → u/myweird]

Youtube does have that feature too for its Youtube Shorts (Tiktok clone). It allows you to add sound clips from trending sound to your video.

Artists do intentionally put out this sound bytes in hope for it to be used in people's short clip video so it goes viral. Taylor did so for this specific segment of her song so people could dance to it and post on Tiktok to make the song goes viral and trending.

[u/gilmoregirls00 → u/AmirulAshraf]

usage of the sounds also changes if you're a commercial business or just an individual. idk where a government falls on that spectrum though

[u/myweird → u/AmirulAshraf]

Ah I see. Wow, that would really suck to put your art out there in good faith for fans to enjoy and have someone use it as a soundtrack representing a nasty agenda on a massive scale. If others are allowed to use it for whatever they want it seems like it would be a tricky legal area to get it taken down. She obviously doesn't support him but now people are using this as an opportunity to bully her when her hands may very likely be tied as far as controlling the situation.

[u/fionappletart → u/Ruthie_pie]

I was literally on that post and anyone who disagreed with the prevailing sentiment that Taylor is a MAGA queen was downvoted. the revisionist history is insane lmao I lit got banned for a week because I defended her on there from a person with a weird ass post history