While Japan has taken the US to task over its use of Japanese IPs like Super Mario in White House social media posts, there have also been interventions closer to home. Despite Donald Trump petulantly declaring "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" on social media when the singer endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024, he's continued to use her music in posts – until they suddenly went silent this week.
Team Trump used two Swift songs over the last week on TikTok. One included a caption playing on lyrics from the star's 2012 album Red. The other was captioned "I’m sure is going to be super excited we used her song!". The song in question was muted and later replaced with what sounds like an AI-generated song about Trump.
