Donald Trump pushes back on fake Taylor Swift endorsement post: 'Somebody else generated them'

Donald Trump might be feeling a bit of Taylor Swift's karma in the wake of controversy after the former president recently shared an artificial intelligence-generated image that falsely showed the pop superstar endorsing him.

Days after the 78-year-old shared on social media a series of A.I.-made photos that falsely depicted both Swift and her fans showing support for his 2024 presidential candidacy, Trump answered a question from Fox Business about the potential threat of an impending Swift lawsuit over the images.

"I don't know anything about them other than somebody else generated them, I didn't generate them," Trump said in an interview clip shared to X by the network's Grady Trimble. "Somebody came out, they said, 'Oh, look at this.' These were all made up by other people."

Trump continued, sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence in general.

"A.I. is always very dangerous in that way. It's happened with me, too. They're having me speak, I speak perfectly, absolutely perfectly, on A.I., and I'm, like, endorsing other products and things," Trump continued. "It's a little bit dangerous out there."

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Swift — who has yet to officially endorse either Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — for comment.

While Swift has yet to back either candidate, her prowess in getting young people to register to vote hasn't gone unnoticed, as she was widely praised for pointing fans to engage with the Vote.org website in the run-up to the election.

The View star and former Trump White House associate Alyssa Farah Griffin also speculated that, if she chose to do so, Swift's influence over a younger demographic could help push Harris to the presidency.

"If Taylor Swift endorses Kamala - which I think she will - the best way for the campaign to deploy her: have her do one-night-only shows in battleground states targeting 1st time voters, where the price to attend is registering to vote," Griffin projected earlier this week, amid false speculation that Swift would appear at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Beyoncé was also widely rumored to appear on stage at the DNC, though that never materialized, either. Harris did, however, use the Grammy-winning icon's "Freedom" song in a new campaign video — something Trump's campaign also attempted to do, before deleting their video using the song amid speculation that Beyoncé's record label and publisher could mount legal action against him, per Rolling Stone.

Representatives for Trump and Beyoncé did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

Watch Trump address the Swift A.I. image in the video above.