{"id":111262,"date":"2025-08-01T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111262\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:22:08","slug":"american-eagle-defends-sydney-sweeney-ads-amid-liberal-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111262\/","title":{"rendered":"American Eagle Defends Sydney Sweeney Ads Amid Liberal Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmerican Eagle<\/a> is standing by its controversial ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney<\/a>, which includes various commercials with the tagline: \u201cSydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.\u201d The campaign creates a pun around \u201cgreat genes,\u201d which ignited outrage online<\/a> over American Eagle glorifying the Emmy nominee\u2019s white heritage and thin physique. Some users on social media even compared<\/a> the ads to \u201cNazi propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans\u2019 is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story,\u201d the company said in a statement posted on social media. \u201cWe\u2019ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney\u2019s American Eagle campaign caused so much chatter online that even Trump\u2019s White House weighed in on the backlash<\/a>, with communications manager Steven Cheung calling the backlash a prime example of \u201ccancel culture run amok.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis warped, moronic and dense liberal thinking is a big reason why Americans voted the way they did in 2024,\u201d Cheung added. \u201cThey\u2019re tired of this bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVice President JD Vance also mocked liberals <\/a>for creating a hysteria around the American Eagle campaign, saying on an episode of the \u201cRuthless\u201d podcast<\/a>: \u201cMy political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi. That appears to be their actual strategy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance continued, \u201cI mean, it actually reveals something pretty interesting about the Dems, though, which is that you have, like, a normal all-American beautiful girl doing like a normal jeans ad, right? They\u2019re trying to sell, you know, sell jeans to kids in America and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing. And it\u2019s like, you guys, did you learn nothing from the November 2024 election? I actually thought that one of the lessons [Democrats] might take is we\u2019re going to be less crazy. And the lesson they have apparently taken is we\u2019re going to attack people as Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven Stephen Colbert, who frequently speaks out against Trump and the White House, called the backlash against Sweeney and American Eagle overblown.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow, some people look at [the ads] and they\u2019re seeing something sinister, saying that the genes-jeans denim wordplay in an ad featuring a white blond woman means American Eagle could be promoting eugenics, white supremacy and Nazi propaganda,\u201d Colbert said this week on \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d \u201cThat might be a bit of an overreaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney has yet to publicly comment on the outcry over the advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Eagle is standing by its controversial ad campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney, which includes various commercials with the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67843,171,21218,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-american-eagle","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-sydney-sweeney","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955612714267884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}