President Trump Claims He Has More TikTok Followers Than Taylor Swift: Here’s How Wrong He Is
The singer has more than twice as many followers as the POTUS.
Black News 
Donald Trump just said that he’s more influential on TikTok than Taylor Swift, but the source of his claim remains a blank space.
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During a Monday (July 6) press conference, the twice-impeached president falsely bragged that his following on the platform — which he at one point referred to as “Tic Tac” — is greater than the pop superstar’s. He told press gathered at the White House: “There’s a thing called TikTok, have you heard of it? It was announced about two days ago, the new numbers just came out, you know who the No. 1 person in [TikTok] is by far? Trump. Me.”
“I’m No. 1,” he continued. “Taylor Swift was No. 11. I’m No. 1 in TikTok by far.”
Billboard has reached out to the singer’s rep for comment.
It’s unclear which “numbers” Trump was referencing, but a cursory search on the app shows that he has 16.7 million followers, while Swift has more than double that amount with 33.5 million. Even their follower counts pale in comparison to the actual most followed creators on the site, which is led by Khaby Lame (162.3 million followers), Charli D’Amelio (159.1 million) and MrBeast (129.1 million).
It’s possible that the politician’s latest dig at Swift was actually a means of drawing more attention to his new Trump Accounts program, which he launched at the Monday press conference. In any case, Trump — who has a long history of dissing the 14-time Grammy winner — and his administration have openly used pop culture references in polarizing ways to generate publicity.
When the White House faced backlash for using Swift’s Billboard Hot 100-topping song “The Fate of Ophelia” in a TikTok glorifying the Trump administration, for instance, an official told Variety in a comment, “We made this video because we knew fake news media brands … would breathlessly amplify them. Congrats, you got played.”
Swift has also been even buzzier than usual as of late, due to her headline-making wedding to Travis Kelce over Fourth of July weekend. Surrounded by friends, family and countless A-list celebrities, the couple tied the knot at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday (July 3), with the venue announcing the news to the public with a message on the screens outside that read, “JUST&T MARRIED.”
