Sydney Sweeney’s controversial marketing campaign with American Eagle has a new public fan.

President Donald Trump has supplied his two cents on the discourse surrounding Sweeney’s current collaboration with American Eagle, and the fallout from their “Sydney Sweeney Has Nice Denims” marketing campaign.

In video footage captured by CNN, Trump was requested about Sweeney and the marketing campaign whereas talking with reporters shortly earlier than boarding Air Drive One in Allentown, Pa., on Sunday. A reporter knowledgeable the president that the actress is a registered Republican.

“She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I really like her advert!” Trump quipped. “Is that proper? Is Sydney Sweeney…? You would be stunned at how many individuals are Republicans. That is one I would not have recognized.”

He added, “However I am glad you informed me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I feel her advert is improbable!”

Trump did not cease there; on Monday he took to Truth Social to heap extra reward on the advert marketing campaign.

“Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ advert on the market,” he wrote partially. “It is for American Eagle, and the denims are ‘flying off the cabinets.’ Go get ’em Sydney!”

He added, “The tide has significantly turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you wish to be. Thanks on your consideration to this matter!”

Trump’s ringing endorsement comes after a number of shops reported over the weekend that the Anybody However You star registered as a Republican in Florida on June 14, 2024, previous to Trump’s re-election. Leisure Weekly has confirmed Sweeney’s voter registration.

It is not the primary time that Sweeney’s political affiliation has been below scrutiny: The Euphoria star grew to become the topic of on-line vitriol in 2022 after she shared images from her mom’s sixtieth party that featured friends in what gave the impression to be Blue Lives Matter garb and MAGA-themed purple hats that learn, “Make Sixty Nice Once more.”

In an interview with Variety a yr later, Sweeney claimed the individuals within the images weren’t her members of the family, telling the outlet they had been “my mother’s pals from L.A.”

“Persons are so quick to construct somebody up, after which they love tearing them down,” she added.

The 2-time Emmy nominee beforehand expressed frustration about not being understood by her household and pals from her conservative hometown of Spokane County, Wash., whereas in dialog with British GQ in 2022.

“After I go dwelling, my household does not perceive me or the world I am in anymore,” she stated on the time. “However then on this trade, my dwelling and the place that grounds me is so vastly totally different to how individuals dwell there. I am on this in-between place the place I really feel like neither facet understands me.”

With the current reveal of her political affiliation, Sweeney can most likely count on extra “misinterpretations” like those after her mother’s controversial soirée.

Whereas Sweeney has but to formally deal with the accusations that her marketing campaign with American Eagle espouses eugenics ideology, the model issued its assertion on Friday, after a week of on-line discourse.

“‘Sydney Sweeney Has Nice Denims’ is and at all times was in regards to the denims. Her denims, her story,” reads the assertion posted on Aug. 1. “We’ll proceed to rejoice how everybody wears their AE denims with confidence, their manner. Nice denims look good on everybody.”

The response to AE’s assertion is as divided because the response to the marketing campaign itself.

“Did not suppose the response might be even worse than the advert but it surely someway was,” one commenter wrote. One other person wrote, “Wow, doubling down. I will stick to purchasing second hand AE from now on. C’mon. To say that wasn’t a euphemism is loopy.”

On the opposite finish of the spectrum, some customers celebrated the message. “By no means purchased AE however now I am a buyer,” one remark reads, whereas one other says, “Good publicity. I like your model earlier than this *controversy* however I such as you guys much more now!”

Content material creators flocked to TikTok to share their ideas on the brand’s messaging, calling American Eagle out for having a white, blonde, blue-eyed lady speaking about “good genes.”

Conservative public figures voiced their thoughts on the campaign within the opposing path, together with White Home communications director Steven Cheung and TV persona Megyn Kelly.

Most just lately, Vice President JD Vance chimed in on the backlash throughout Friday’s episode of the Ruthless podcast, saying he believed the discourse reveals “one thing fairly fascinating” about Democrats.

“I truly thought that one of the teachings [Democrats] would possibly take is we’ll be much less loopy,” Vance stated. “And the lesson they’ve apparently taken is we’ll assault individuals as Nazis for considering Sydney Sweeney is lovely. Nice technique, guys. That is how you are going to win the midterm, particularly younger American males.”

Vance added, “A lot of the Democrats is oriented round hostility to fundamental American life. So you’ve gotten a fairly woman doing a denims advert they usually can not help however freak out. It reveals a lot extra about them than it does us.”

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Leisure Weekly has reached out to Sweeney’s rep for remark.