Did Taylor Swift endorse Donald Trump in August 2024? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Swift said she wanted people to vote for Trump in the 2024 presidential election campaign. The image of Swift as Uncle Sam with the phrase "TAYLOR WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP" appears to be AI generated. Swift endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and spoke out against Trump that year. There are no credible news reports that Swift threw her support behind Trump in 2024 election.
The claim originated in a post (archived here) where it was published on X, formerly known as Twitter, on August 17, 2024. It opened:
The left continues COMPLETELY MELTING DOWN everytime a SwiftiesForTrump post goes up! They're losing their minds!!
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Mon Aug 19 15:19:37 2024 UTC)
Text overlaying a poster-style image of Swift dressed as Uncle Sam read "TAYLOR WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP." A Google search of keywords (archived here) returned zero matching results for Swift endorsing or supporting Trump in August 2024. Because of Swift's global fandom, had this taken place it would have been national and international news. Lead Stories ran the image through the HIVE AI-detection tool that determined it was likely AI-generated:
(Source: Truth Social screenshot taken on Mon Aug 19 15:35:22 2024 UTC)
As of publication date, Swift had not endorsed Trump or Kamala Harris, according to a search of her X account (archived here) or her Instagram account (archived here).
Swift has historically not supported Trump. In 2020, she posted a message on her now-X account (archived here) slamming Trump:
After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? 'When the looting starts the shooting starts'??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump
-- Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 29, 2020
Swift also gave an interview and posted on her X account (archived here) that she was supporting Joe Biden in October 2020:
I spoke to @vmagazine about why I'll be voting for Joe Biden for president. So apt that it's come out on the night of the VP debate. Gonna be watching and supporting @KamalaHarris by yelling at the tv a lot. And I also have custom cookies 🍪💪😘
-- Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 7, 2020
📷 @inezandvinoodh pic.twitter.com/DByvIgKocr
The image was shared by Trump on his Truth Social account (archived here) on August 18, 2024. It was part of a collage of images that showed "Swifties for Trump." The image of a purported news article titled, "Swifties turning to Trump after ISIS foiled Taylor Swift concert," was clearly labeled satire.
(Source: Truth Social screenshot taken on Mon Aug 19 15:30:55 2024 UTC)
The image of the woman in a white T-shirt that read "Swifties for Trump," was identified in a separate post (below) as Jenna Piwowarczyk at a Trump rally in Racine, Wisconsin, in June (archived here):
More pictures of Jenna Piwowarczyk, 19, at the #Trump rally in Racine #wisconsin with her homemade #SwiftiesForTrump shirt! I took the pics. She's been a massive Taylor #Swift fan all her life and she is also a supporter of #Trump. She came up with this on her own. -Jessica pic.twitter.com/TOIVu72xCC
-- Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) August 17, 2024
The image of the woman in a red light T-shirt that said "Swifties for Trump" was AI-generated as this screenshot shows:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Mon Aug 19 15:24:13 2024 UTC)
Other Lead Stories fact checks on claims concerning Donald Trump can be found here, and fact checks on claims concerning Taylor Swift can be found here.
