The White House has admitted to trolling the media after sharing a Taylor Swift-inspired TikTok of Donald Trump amid their one-sided feud.
It all kicked off when the White House’s official TikTok page dropped a TikTok video soundtracked by Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl song, “The Fate of Ophelia”.
Riffing on the lyrics of the track, the clip includes pics of the President hugging the American flag (nightmare fuel), as well as other images of Vice President JD Vance and their wives, Melania Trump and Usha Vance (quadruple nightmare fuel).
Given Swift and Trump’s tumultuous history (more on that later), it wasn’t long before the press asked about the decision to use the pop star’s track, prompting the Trump administration to admit it was rage bait. Yep, we’ve reached this point of the timeline.
“We made this video because we knew fake news media brands would breathlessly amplify them,” a White House spokesperson told Us Weekly. “Congrats, you got played.”
It’s not yet known how the press “got played”, since the only thing the TikTok draws attention to is unflattering images like Trump’s mugshot and that time he shovelled fries at McDonald’s. If only he’d pursued that instead of the White House.
The media’s interest in the TikTok arose because of Trump’s previous comments about Swift, including him unleashing on the singer after she endorsed his presidential opponent Kamala Harris back in November 2024 — AKA the simpler times.
“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Trump, presumably with a broken caps lock button, wrote on Truth Social at the time. Flash forward to May of this year and Trump doubled-down, writing, “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’”.
Along the way, the one-sided beef has elsewhere come to include Trump relishing in Swift being booed at the Super Bowl, him selling fake Era’s Tour merch, and him sharing AI-generated pics of the singer actually (and falsely) endorsing him for president.
Meanwhile, Swift has appeared unbothered by the mentions, busily releasing a best-selling album and getting engaged to Travis Kelce, the latter of which was somehow taken as an olive branch for Trump.
“Well, I wish them a lot of luck,” Trump said after news of their engagement. “I think he’s a great guy and I think that she’s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.”
Trump’s changing tune about Swift wasn’t explained, but here’s hoping she’s cooking up a Reputation-style clapback of some sort.
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