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Sydney Sweeney Breaks Her Silence on Controversial American Eagle Jeans Ad, Calls Trump and Vance’s Support ‘Surreal’
Quote:The popular actress and model Sydney Sweeney has finally broken her silence on the widely controversial American Eagle jeans ad in which she participated.
Given that, for years, companies have tried to be more “woke” by including minority groups in their commercials, leftists were outraged when Sweeney went viral for wearing American Eagle jeans.
Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington. She is a White, brunette American actress who grew to fame for her role in the TV series “Euphoria.”
Since she doesn’t, arguably, fit the profile of the left’s agenda, she was heavily criticized for the ad.
In her latest interview with GQ Magazine, Sweeney promoted her film “Christy,” which was released on Sept. 5.
The movie is a biographical drama about the life of former professional boxer Christy Martin, whom Sweeney plays.
GQ was sure to ask Sweeney for her thoughts on the controversy she was embroiled in, stemming from the American Eagle ad.
The popular actress noted that she was surprised by the outrage sparked by the commercial.
“I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life,” she said.
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance had addressed the American Eagle controversy during its climax.
The president stated that after learning Sweeney was a registered Republican, he supported her ad.
“Oh, now I love her ad,” he said. “If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
Similar to his boss, Vance eviscerated Democrats for criticizing the “normal” ad.
The vice president urged the left to continue its attacks on Sweeney, presumably because it would alienate the Democratic Party further from Americans.
“My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,” he said. “That appears to be their actual strategy.”
“I mean, it actually reveals something pretty interesting about the Dems though, which is that you have a normal all-American beautiful girl doing like a normal jeans ad. They’re trying to sell jeans to kids in America and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing. And it’s like, you guys, did you learn nothing from the November 2024 election?” he added.
In the GQ interview, Sweeney was asked to describe how she felt being supported by the president and vice president.
“It was surreal,” she said.
Needless to say, Sweeney’s reaction to Trump and Vance’s support did not sit right with Democrats.
On X, liberals reacted to a clip of Sweeney’s remarks, with one calling her a “r*tard.”
“What a r*tard, katseye ended her maga ass,” one user said.
The GQ reporter said that if she were in Sweeney’s position, she would feel “thankful” to have the public support of “powerful people” in times of controversy, calling such a reaction “totally human.”
In response, Sweeney said that she didn’t see much of the criticism online.
“I don’t think…. It’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking of it like that, of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I’m filming Euphoria, so I’m working 16-hour days and I don’t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn’t really see a lot of it,” the famed actress said.
Despite the backlash, American Eagle’s stock surged 38% after the Sweeney ad.
“I was aware of the numbers as it was going. So when I saw all the headlines of in-store visits were down a certain percentage, none of it was true. It was all made up, but nobody could say anything because [the company was] in their quiet period. So it was all just a lot of talk. And because I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other,” Sweeney said.
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