Former President Donald Trump has posted a fake social media photo of pop superstar Taylor Swift urging people to vote for him in the November election.
The post, posted by the Republican candidate on Truth Social on Sunday, showed Swift wearing a red, white and blue outfit with the caption, “Taylor Swift wants you to vote for Donald Trump.”
Trump wrote, “I accept!”
Swift has not publicly endorsed any candidate in the 2024 race but has supported Democrats in the past.
The singer endorsed President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris in 2020. Harris is set to be formally nominated as the 2024 Democratic nominee at the party’s national convention in Chicago this week. Swift also criticized Trump in a 2020 documentary.
A spokesperson for Swift did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump also posted photos of young women wearing “Swifties for Trump” shirts, and a satirical article titled “Swifties turn on Trump after ISIS crashes Taylor Swift concert.” The article was marked “satire” above the headline.
Swift cancels three shows in Vienna Earlier this month, authorities said they had foiled a planned attack. Local authorities arrested a 19-year-old man they said was inspired by Islamic State.
“Swifties for Trump is a massive movement that grows bigger every day,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement when asked for comment about the fake Swift image.
Several Swift fans and watchdog groups said several photos posted by Trump appeared to be deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.
Advocates in the music industry, Hollywood and Washington are pushing for federal legislation and other measures to fight the explosion of fake AI images online.
Consumer group Public Citizen said Trump’s post was “yet another example of AI’s power to generate misinformation.”
“The potential harm to our society from such misinformation, including abuse of our elections, is widespread and extremely damaging,” the group said.
But Democratic National Convention in ChicagoIn 2014, Swift fan Rebecca Goff handed out friendship bracelets at a Nevada Democratic Party breakfast, a common practice among the singer’s fans.
Gauff, 39, said she thinks Trump is the exact opposite of Swift’s ideology, which includes celebrating girlhood and womanhood.
“This is the exact opposite of what Trump and the Republican Party are trying to do, especially with women,” Goff said. “They’re trying to belittle us. They want us to go back to being just housewives and baby-makers.”