--- 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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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._ 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  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. ## Transcript She's been this for the light in the world this year. She brought to so many people together like a community to it's not even just hurt. It just made me feel like I wasn't alone and I wasn't crazy for feeling the way that it was feeling we grew up together. We all went through the same things together the stadium and it feels like you're with her one-on-one. Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the areas for these bracelets are so important exchanging special handmade friendship bracelet all goes back to Taylor song. You're on your own kid. So my friends and I got tickets to the arrows toward we had about two hundred bracelets made. We just couldn't stop you really just had a good time doing it. You realize 200 very slick was way too many for us to all bring in trade can actually came up with the idea to put them on at Sea until then. I went to bed. I woke up the next morning and we had over three hundred bracelets on order. It's like five six seven. I'm going to have to make sure you got done with so many we weren't expecting to get much money a couple hundred dollars at the most this morning. I ran the numbers and we're at $19,000 in sales The Heirs to his my Roman Empire, I think about it all the time every day. I hear a song. That's a great price that song. That's a good thing to put on a bracelet this business definitely keep us in touch two of us over Massachusetts the other two live in Connecticut. Now, we have to meet up and trade bracelets drop off talking with every single day. Keep making more songs Taylors. I went to the reputation tour. I was right next to a security guard. So we struck up a conversation and he told me about the gig they have a couple years later. I found some free time. So I picked up that job ultimately to try and work the Taylor Swift concert with working on the floor kind of right along the edge of her stage after night one. I made little pieces of paper that asked the audience if they could take photos of me with Taylor Swift in the background and text it to me. When she came right behind me, there were a ton of fans and I had to look at the fans by saw all of their faces light up when she gets near them and it was just a sight even if I wasn't looking at her on that date. I think the squeal is Mom. They had me Neil up on the stage and I see Taylor Swift coming to a nice Knights worth fixing Young Band to give that hat tube during the song 22. I was already working with Taylor's water up team and they approached me to do the classical order for the video for 22. The connection could she have with her fan in the moment? You are so emotional for me to see it was so beautiful. Baylor's name power so many women with her music and to me and be part of the always. I'm trying to empower women with my Craftsman and be together is so beautiful to me. I always loved you from the moment. I want to propose I wanted to do it at Taylor Swift concert. I just never thought I would you do I water the logistics of that. How long wait at the once-in-a-lifetime set the thing I was like, okay, I've got to figure out how is it going with the ring one? I need to see where exactly in the lyrics I have to kneel down to Nelly. All I could think of is what is the line? I need to go down one. Two to three weeks before the actual date of the score. Yeah. I never told him I would play the song whenever I would go to work and whenever I would come back just to make sure it's okay. This is the part that I have to mail them. You got so many different angles of the proposal and I have some of those saved as like Swifty section 326 never seen so much brightness and glitter up around all at once, but I've never been a part of such a supportive Community like that. I just knew that when I proposed to Nick I needed a letter to be a part of it because she's been such momenta simpactful person predict his whole life and as much as I love her too, it just felt like this is something I don't want Nick to remember forever. I want everything. He loves to be a part of the experience from She's been there on the hardest days of my life and she's been there for the best day of my life. 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