--- title: Trump Shares Fake Endorsement by Taylor Swift description: Long story short, Trump thinks Swift is gorgeous, but she thinks he’s mean. canonical: https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/ author: Koh Ewe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-08-19T08:20:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:50:20.264Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Shares AI-Generated Taylor Swift Endorsement og:description: Long story short, Trump thinks Swift is gorgeous, but she thinks he’s mean. og:url: https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1dbf9fcf508658/698a5a05d075330c95e711ee/Taylor-Swift-Swifties-Donald-Trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift Donald Trump Election 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Shares AI-Generated Taylor Swift Endorsement twitter:description: Long story short, Trump thinks Swift is gorgeous, but she thinks he’s mean. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1dbf9fcf508658/698a5a05d075330c95e711ee/Taylor-Swift-Swifties-Donald-Trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dear Reader, Taylor Swift Endorsing Trump Is an AI-Generated Fairytale > Sponsored content. 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Aug 19, 2024 8:20 AM UTC  Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in London on Aug. 15, 2024. Taylor Swift performs during the Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in London on Aug. 15, 2024.Kate Green—Getty Images by [Koh Ewe](https://time.com/author/koh-ewe/) ## Koh Ewe Koh Ewe (Koyu) was a reporter for TIME based in Singapore. Aug 19, 2024 8:20 AM UTC Donald Trump would like his followers to believe that pop music megastar Taylor Swift advocates voting red. But that may just be in his wildest dreams. “I accept!” the former President [posted](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112984762512136574) on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, along with a collage of images from the internet—including some apparently generated by artificial intelligence—showing the [TIME Person of the Year](https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/) dressed as [Uncle Sam and saying](https://x.com/akafacehots/status/1824832088735961272) “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump” as well as numerous Swift fans expressing their support for the Republican presidential nominee. > [](https://twitter.com/TruthTrumpPosts/status/1825272415603048928) Taylor Swift has not officially endorsed any candidate in the 2024 election, though she previously backed the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020 and has [criticized](https://x.com/taylorswift13/status/1294685437362155522) Trump for “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” and for [defunding the U.S. Postal Service in 2020](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/politics/postal-service-trump-coronavirus.html), which she [described](https://x.com/taylorswift13/status/1266392274549776387) as choosing to “blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.” TIME has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on a potential Swift endorsement, as the Democratic Party kicks off its convention this week in Chicago, where a number of celebrities are expected to speak and perform in support of the Harris-Walz campaign. **Read More:** [_Your Questions About the Democratic National Convention, Answered_](https://time.com/7011508/dnc-where-when-speakers/) At least one so-called “Swiftie for Trump”—pictured twice in Trump’s post—is real. According to [Wisconsin Right Now](https://x.com/wisconsin%5Fnow/status/1824674924188864739), 19-year-old Jenna Piwowarczyk was seen sporting the slogan on a homemade white T-shirt at a Trump rally in Wisconsin in June. But there’s no evidence that a significant number of fans of Swift are supporting the Republican candidate—an unofficial Swifties for Trump account [on X](https://x.com/trumpswiftie) (created in July) has less than 4,000 followers, while an unofficial Swifties 4 Kamala account, also created in July, has over 60,000 followers [on X](https://x.com/Swifties4Kamala) and over 100,000 [on TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@swifties4kamala). **Read More:** [_The Kamala Harris Campaign Is Embracing the Memes_](https://time.com/7001188/kamala-harris-memes-campaign-brat-coconuts-unburdened-context-venn-diagrams/) Trump’s Truth Social post also included a screenshot of a post by conservative account Amuse, featuring clearly AI-generated images of young women wearing “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, accompanied by a headline, labeled as “satire,” that says Swiftes are “turning to Trump” after the singer’s Vienna concert was [canceled](https://time.com/7008949/taylor-swift-vienna-eras-tour-attack-cancel/) out of concern over a jihadist terrorist plot. The original [post on X](https://x.com/amuse/status/1824830288192503818) acknowledges in its image alt. text: “There is no Swifties For Trump movement - but there should be.” In another Truth Social [post](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112985949322037696) on Sunday, Trump reshared a TikTok video of a woman claiming that Swifties were now “rallying for Trump” because of the same terrorist plot. Trump has spoken about Swift before, [telling](https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/donald-trump-taylor-swift-beautiful-liberal-apprentice-1236030425/) Ramin Setoodeh, author of _Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass_, “I hear she’s very talented” and “I think she’s very, I think she’s very beautiful, actually—unusually beautiful.” As for Swift’s politics, Trump is quoted in the same book as saying, “I think she’s liberal. She probably doesn’t like Trump”—though he expressed some skepticism about that, reportedly questioning: “She’s legitimately liberal? It’s not an act? It surprises me that a country star can be successful being liberal.” As experts warn of the dangers of [disinformation in politics](https://time.com/6969563/states-are-racing-to-pass-ai-bills-before-the-2024-election/), which new technology can exacerbate, Trump’s recent sharing of the Swift-related AI-generated images comes after he and billionaire Elon Musk [shared](https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1824069681868669045) an [AI-altered video](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823742501884453312/) on X last week depicting them dancing after the two held a high-profile livestream together on the social media platform owned by Musk. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/"},"headline":"Dear Reader, Taylor Swift Endorsing Trump Is an AI-Generated Fairytale","datePublished":"2024-08-19T08:20:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:50:20.264Z","description":"Long story short, Trump thinks Swift is gorgeous, but she thinks he’s mean.","url":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/","keywords":["2024 Elections","overnight","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1dbf9fcf508658/698a5a05d075330c95e711ee/Taylor-Swift-Swifties-Donald-Trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Koh Ewe","jobTitle":"Koh Ewe (Koyu) was a reporter for TIME based in Singapore.","url":"https://time.com/author/koh-ewe/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc1dbf9fcf508658/698a5a05d075330c95e711ee/Taylor-Swift-Swifties-Donald-Trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor Swift Donald Trump Election 2024","caption":"Taylor Swift performs on stage during the Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on August 15, 2024.","creditText":"Kate Green—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2024-election/","name":"2024 Elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/","name":"Dear Reader, Taylor Swift Endorsing Trump Is an AI-Generated Fairytale"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift","description":"Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZNHPu9Wg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-12-06T12:25:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZNHPu9Wg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/","duration":"PT7M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/7012117/swifties-for-trump-taylor-swift-presidential-election-endorsement-ai-factcheck/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```