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Taylor Swift has removed "I Bet You Think About Me" from a TikTok video posted by Trump's White House. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The White House is once again trying to provoke Taylor Swift.
On Wednesday, the official White House TikTok account posted a new video of Donald Trump glad-handing around with Swift’s 2021 vault “I Bet You Think About Me” as the soundtrack. “We know you think about us,” read the caption, referencing the track’s lyrics. Within a few hours, the song was quietly muted and removed from the video, although it remains available in other clips and as a sound on TikTok.
It’s the latest video antagonizing the pop superstar in what has become an ongoing saga. Days before, on Aug. 8, Swift removed her song “August” from a post by the Team Trump TikTok account, Trump’s official campaign page. “I’m sure Taylor Swift is going to be super excited we used her song,” that video’s caption read. After Swift removed “August,” she also muted other songs that were featured in past videos posted by the Team Trump account last fall.
