Team Trump Trolls Taylor Swift With Song Use Before Copyright Claim Brings Silence; Deadline, August 8, 2026

  Greg Evans, Deadline ; Team Trump Trolls Taylor Swift With Song Use Before Copyright Claim Brings Silence

“A TikTok video posted to the White House account earlier this week depicted the president and First Lady Melania Trump from behind as they watched a fireworks display in a night sky. The text over the photo read, “Mood because it’s August and Donald Trump is your president.” 

The video was accompanied by the Swift song “august,” and at the bottom of image was a note from “Team Trump” saying, “I’m sure @Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song!”

The trolling was short lived though. By last night, both the song (from Swift’s Folklore album) and the teasing note were removed from the account, replaced with a message in the U.S. reading, “The copyright owner hasn’t made this sound available in your country.””