Audio from a Team Trump TikTok featuring Taylor Swift’s track ‘Father Figure’ was also muted following a post on November 6, 2025.
WASHINGTON, DC: Social media is currently buzzing with claims that Taylor Swift had her hit song ‘August’ stripped from a TikTok video published by Donald Trump’s campaign.
Swift’s fanbase quickly took to X to celebrate the removal, interpreting it as a silent yet deliberate rebuke of Trump without the pop star needing to issue a formal statement. Let’s examine the details to see what actually occurred.
Claim: Taylor Swift pulled her track ‘August’ from a Team Trump TikTok
According to X user @mclr4n, Taylor Swift‘s camp was responsible for removing ‘August’ from the Trump team’s upload. The user posted, “taylor’s team removed the song from trump’s post on tiktok. When the truth comes out, it’s quiet :).”
The controversy stems from a TikTok shared by the Trump campaign that incorporated the Folklore track. The accompanying caption read, “I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song! #taylorswift #maga #august.”
The footage featured Donald and Melania Trump taking in fireworks from a balcony, accompanied by the on-screen text: “Mood because it’s August and Donald Trump is your president.”
By the evening of Friday, August 7, users noticed the audio had disappeared. Viewers accessing the U.S. version of TikTok were greeted with a notice stating, “The copyright owner hasn’t made this sound available in your country.”
Managed since before the 2024 presidential election, the @TeamTrump TikTok channel boasts roughly 14 million followers and has maintained a steady stream of content since Trump’s return to office.
Fact Check: True
The rumor holds up: either Taylor Swift or the respective copyright holders intervened to mute or remove ‘August’ from the Trump campaign’s TikTok upload. The song originally debuted on Swift’s 2020 record Folklore.
This is not an isolated incident. Back on November 6, 2025, another Team Trump upload utilizing Swift’s ‘Father Figure’ suffered the exact same fate when its audio was taken down.
However, alternate posts—such as one utilizing a version of Swift’s ‘Red’ uploaded around the same timeframe—still retained their audio at the time of publication.
The history between Trump and Swift includes several public political clashes. Tensions flared in September 2024 when Trump fired off “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” following her Instagram endorsement of Kamala Harris for the presidency.
At the time, Swift stated, “I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.”
Weeks prior, Trump had circulated AI-fabricated imagery falsely implying Swift was backing his campaign, including a poster depicting her as Uncle Sam alongside the words, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.”
Addressing the situation later on Fox Business, Trump brushed off concerns regarding potential legal action from Swift over the deepfake images, claiming they “were all made up by other people.”