Donald Trump is trying to brush off the fact that he shared A.I.-generated images of Taylor Swift endorsing his campaign to his Truth Social account earlier this week, now claiming that he doesn’t know “anything about them.”

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      Well I don’t know about you, my kin, but now that DMBFFF has finally revealed what we have SO DESPERATELY YEARNED to know… I can finally rest.

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        This isn’t the first time there was report of Trump using material from someone who got rich in an industry that lords over its supposed “intellectual property rights” and that person either sues Trump or threatens to do so.

        What if Harris wanted to use music from Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, or Kanye ironically?

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          He isn’t using her music, though. He’s using her image. I think there is a case here, but it isn’t a copyright case.

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            In the US, an image is under copyright unless the owner releases it into the public domain or like; and if you’re referring to trademark, that’s probably worse.

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    Im starting to believe he doesnt know about them or project 2025. Of course he knew about them before. But dementia does bad things to your memory.

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    The law suit isn’t what matters. He’s got a massive collection of those already and it won’t matter until it all eventually catches up to him assuming he fails to get elected.

    What matters is that if he pissed Taylor off enough she might actually endorse Harris openly. We know she leans blue but she’s refrained from open endorsements. Her fans are absolutely crazy and she could probably sway a bunch of Republicans easily. This is great.

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      I find it hard to believe that anyone who votes Republican will care enough about Taylor Swift’s influence to change their vote, but I can absolutely believe that her endorsement would swing the numbers in a big way if she just motivates politically apathetic Swifties to go to the polls.

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        It might even be a “normie” to “activist” pipeline.

        That’s hard to predict. On one side, Trump convinced people that he won an election he lost, and committed violence in his name.

        Maybe Swifties will phone bank?

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          It’s always been about turnout. When you have like only 60% of voters going to the polls, a spark of inspiration can be way more important than attempting to convince current voters to sway.

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        Republicans show the effect that peer pressure has on them with their insane belief that people undergo gender reassignment surgery solely because of liberal peer pressure. Republican swifties (assuming there is such a thing in the first place?) would absolutely vote Kamala if Taylor told them to.

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    Don’t be afraid, SleepyDon, keep posting, the more the better. She won’t sue.

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    He uh… really should be. She is legit rich as all fuck and has a lot of reasons to want to crack down on anything “AI” of her.

    But also? He has all but guaranteed that T-swizzle openly endorses Kamala (rather than all but endorsing her). She is pretty unapologetically liberal and… spite is a hell of a drug.

    Like, if you have to piss off a fanbase? Go after the k-pop fans before you go after Taylor Swift.