Trump Promotes A.I. Images to Falsely Suggest Taylor Swift Endorsed Him
The former president has been preoccupied with the popularity of the pop music megastar, who endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. over him during the 2020 election.
JFYI，这是四年前，霉霉给川普的盖棺定论：
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.
Some legal analysts believe Swift has grounds to sue the Republican nominee over the AI-manipulated "false endorsement."
Former President Donald Trump shared a series of images on Truth Social Sunday night suggesting that superstar Taylor Swift and a group of her followers called "Swifties for Trump" had endorsed him in the 2024 presidential election.
Many of the images, including one of the singer-songwriter dressed as Uncle Sam with the caption, "Taylor Swift Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump," appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence.
He wrote in one of the captions, "I accept!"
Right, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign event at Harrah's Cherokee Center on August 14, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. Left, Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift... More AFP/Getty Images
In 2020, Swift backed the campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and there is certainly no love lost between her and former President Trump, whom she has accused of "stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism."
Swift, however, has yet to endorse any presidential candidate this election cycle.
The posts were met with outrage on social media, both by Trump's critics and fans of the megastar singer-songwriter. Some legal analysts believe Swift has grounds to sue the Republican nominee over the AI-manipulated "false endorsement."
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"I hope this inspires every Taylor Swift fan to vote for Harris. And every music fan. And every person who cares about an artist's image & prestige stole by a criminal politician. And everyone who supports women's rights. Oh, and I hope Ms. Swift sues Trump back to the Stone Age," attorney and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
One of the images in Trump's post—of a woman in a white "Swifties for Trump" T-shirt—is not fake. One image showed Jenna Piwowarczyk wearing the homemade T-shirt to a Trump rally in Racine, Wisconsin, in June. Piwowarczyk went on to explain her decision to start the movement in a YouTube video.
"By focusing more on the AI photos than on the REAL person in the photos that Trump shared, I think the media are missing an opportunity to recognize that, of all the millions of Taylor Swift fans, of course there will be many who support Trump and conservative values and also love her music. We exist. We are real," Piwowarczyk wrote in a statement shared by Wisconsin Right Now, a Wisconsin-focused news platform, on X.
“Lyin’ Kamala Harris, the Biden appointed ‘Border Czar’ who never visited the Border, and whose incompetence gave us the WORST and MOST DANGEROUS Border anywhere in the World, has absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!”
