President Donald Trump is thrilled about Sydney Sweeney’s “great jeans” — and the revelation that the Emmy-nominated actor is a registered Republican.
“Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sydney!” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. Trump seemingly became aware of the growing debacle surrounding Sweeney and her controversial American Eagle denim campaign on Sunday. During a press gaggle with reporters Trump was asked about reports that Sweeney was a registered Republican.
“She’s a registered Republican?” Trump said, “Oh, now I love her ad.”
“You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans,” he added. “That’s what I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
Trump paired his praise for Sweeney on Monday with a blond American icon he isn’t as big of a fan of: Taylor Swift, whose support for Democrats the president has never been able to forgive.
“Just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be,” the president wrote.
Taylor Swift was not, in fact, “booed out of the Super Bowl,” and remains one of the most successful artists on the planet despite the bizarre Republican vendetta against her.
If Swift and Sweeney have anything in common, it’s far-right men projecting white nationalist values onto their public image. Sweeney’s partnership with American Eagle used the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes Jeans,” leaning on the homophone to emphasize the well-worn point that Sweeney is hot, in jeans or otherwise.
“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue,” the actor said in one ad. The general tone of the campaign — a blond, blue-eyed woman celebrating how great her “genes” are — prompted laudatory reactions from online racists, and criticism from the left.
Republicans have since taken to categorizing criticism of the advertisement as woke hysteria. “So you have a pretty girl doing a jeans ad and they can’t help but freak out. It reveals a lot more about them than it does us. No question,” Vice President J.D. Vance said on Friday.
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly said on her podcast: “We miss attractive people. We’re sick of trying to pretend that these objectively unattractive people are the new beauty standard. … We’re sick and fucking tired of the nonsense where you’re not allowed to ever celebrate someone who is white and blond and blue-eyed.”
Neither American Eagle or a representative for Sweeney responded to requests for comment regarding the president’s statements. In an Instagram post published Friday, American Eagle wrote that “’Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.”
The president agrees, at least when it comes to how they look on Republicans.
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