A popular young streamer is taking a page from Taylor Swift after the White House pulled a move that didn’t sit right with him.
President Donald Trump‘s social media team often faces backlash for using today’s artists to push their sometimes offensive messaging.
Many have made it clear they wanted no part of it. But one young streamer just made the White House look foolish.
The White House TikTok shared a video to promote Donald Trump as the “Man of the Year.”
All it needed was a slick edit, a few dramatic camera angles and music with enough swagger to sell the fantasy no one buys.
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It’s a play the administration’s social media staff has run for over a year now. It lifts songs from artists who never gave permission, then dares them to complain. This time, the artist didn’t just complain. He cussed them out in front of millions.
But the matter turned into something else once the person who made the song caught wind of it.
The clip went up on the official White House TikTok account over the weekend with the caption “The realest.” It stitches together shots of a grinning Trump, Air Force One soaring over a packed football stadium and the words “MAN OF THE YEAR” stamped across the screen.
According to Complex, one moment shows the president brushing off a reporter’s question about the deadly attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which killed at least 12 people.
The edit plays like a boss move. On TikTok, the audio is labeled “original sound – The White House.” But the young man who actually made it was watching, and he was not flattered.
The song “Man of the Year” belongs in part to PlaqueBoyMax, the 23-year-old Twitch star who turned his livestreams into one of the hottest recording studios on the internet.
The song, released in January 2025, is credited on streaming platforms to PlaqueBoyMax, rapper UnoTheActivist and 5STAR.
On Monday, creator FearBuck posted the video on X, writing, “The White House posted a TikTok with a PlaqueBoyMax song as the audio.” Max quote-posted it that night with a reply that needed no translation: “F—k you n—a.”
By Tuesday afternoon, the post had been viewed more than 3 million times.
PlaqueBoyMax built his following with his “In the Booth” sessions. In those sessions, rappers pull up to his home studio and cook up tracks from scratch live on stream. He joined the gaming and content powerhouse FaZe Clan in 2024.
The timing is hardly random. The video landed about two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, as Trump scrambles to fire up his base and Democrats push to retake the House and Senate.
Max has not said whether he plans to take legal action.
His fans had plenty of ideas, though. One person summed up what a lot of Black listeners were feeling, writing, “They stay talking s—t about Black people, but always use our music.” Another skipped the outrage and went straight to business: “Lawsuit. Get the bag.”
Even the White House’s own TikTok comment section wasn’t buying the branding. “‘Man of the year’ we know your lying,” one viewer wrote.
PlaqueBoyMax is only the latest name on a growing list. In December 2025, Sabrina Carpenter called a White House immigration video set to her song “Juno” “evil and disgusting.” The administration answered by mocking her own lyrics.
About a week later, SZA accused the White House of “rage baiting artists for free promo” after it used her song “Big Boys” in a similar clip.
This summer, Katy Perry said she was “deeply appalled” after the White House paired “Firework” with footage of military strikes on Iran.
Afterward, MAGA supporters swarmed her for speaking up. Last month, singer JMSN sent the White House a cease-and-desist letter over its use of his song “Love Me.”
Trump himself has been collecting cease-and-desist letters for years, from artists like Beyoncé, Adele and the Rolling Stones.
The difference now is that official government accounts are doing the borrowing, and a new generation of artists is answering in its own language.
For PlaqueBoyMax, that took just three words. Judging by the numbers, the internet heard him loud and clear.
