The White House press secretary’s 2025 Spotify Wrapped featured what many will consider to be an unlikely artist.
On Wednesday, December 3, Karoline Leavitt shared her Top 5 most-listened-to artists of the year, which included Taylor Swift — despite her boss President Donald Trump’s previous public attacks against the artist.
Swift, 35, came in at No. 5 as Leavitt’s top artist of 2025, behind No. 1 Morgan Wallen and Christian artists Forrest Frank, Brandon Lake and Anne Wilson. Leavitt, 28, did not share any of her top songs or albums of the year, so it is unclear what Swift Era she has been jamming to all year long.
Her apparent Swiftie status comes in the wake of numerous online attacks aimed toward Swift by the current commander in chief.
After Swift endorsed the then-Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, Trump posted, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” on his social media platform, Truth Social.
In May 2025, Trump again took aim at Swift online in apparent attack on her looks.
“Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?’”
In August, however, after Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement via social media, Trump seemed to soften his tone and general attitude towards the pop star.
“I wish them a lot of luck,” the president said during a Cabinet meeting at the time. “I think he’s a great player and a great guy, and I think she’s a terrific person, so I wish them a lot of luck.”
And on November 2, the White House went so far as to use Swift’s song, “The Fate of Ophelia,” off her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in a clip shared via its official TikTok channel. The clip featured a photo of President Trump’s 2023 mugshot, in which she was indicted on charges related to efforts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, as Swift sang,”Don’t care where the hell you been.”
“OUR VIBES,” the White House captioned the post, which also featured a clip of the president hugging and kissing the American flag as Swift sang, “Cause now you’re mine.”
Swift, who is notorious for being litigious when it comes to the unauthorized use of her music or likeness, has yet to publicly respond to the White House’s use of her music.
Other artists, however, have been extremely vocal in their opposition to the Trump administration using their music without their explicit, authorized consent. Most recently, singer Sabrina Carpenter — who joined Swift on her history-making Eras tour — responded to the Trump administration using her song “Juno” in a 21-second video to promote the administration’s deportation efforts.
“This video is evil and disgusting,” Carpenter, 26, wrote via X on Tuesday, December 2. “Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit our inhumane agenda.” h
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson later defended the video and its content in a statement to US Weekly.
“Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists and pedophiles from our country,” Jackson told Us on Tuesday. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”
(According to the Cato Institute, 93 percent of individuals detained and booked in ICE detention centers have not been convicted of a violent crime, and nearly two-thirds have no criminal conviction at all.)
The administration has since removed the video from the platform.
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