{"id":119073,"date":"2025-08-04T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:36:10","slug":"trump-praises-sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-sending-american-eagle-stock-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119073\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Praises Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad, Sending American Eagle Stock Soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Key Takeaways<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Eagle shares took off Monday after the president praised its recent ad campaign with actress Sydney Sweeney.<\/li>\n<li>Critics said the ads were hypersexualized and made references to discriminatory ideas about genetics.<\/li>\n<li>American Eagle said on Instagram that the ad has always been about Sweeney&#8217;s jeans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> American Eagle (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/markets\/quote?tvwidgetsymbol=AEO\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AEO<\/a>) shares soared Monday as the president applauded its recent ad campaign with actress Sydney Sweeney.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cSydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the &#8216;HOTTEST&#8217; ad out there. It\u2019s for American Eagle, and the jeans are &#8216;flying off the shelves.&#8217; Go get \u2018em Sydney,\u201d President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social media platform Monday morning. \u201cBeing WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Shares of American Eagle surged nearly 24% Monday afternoon after Trump&#8217;s comments, following days of public discourse on ads critics said were hypersexualized and played on discriminatory ideas about genetics.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> In a video ad unveiled in late July, the actress\u2014who has lighter hair and blue eyes\u2014discussed the science behind genetics, and a narrator added, \u201cSydney Sweeney has great jeans.&#8221; To some, the promotion seemed to echo ideas on the superior genetics of white people.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> American Eagle didn\u2019t immediately respond to an Investopedia request for comment. The retailer said the ad has always been about jeans, and that \u201cgreat jeans look good on everyone,&#8221; on Instagram last week.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html\"> Despite the recent gains for American Eagle stock, the shares have still lost about a fifth of their value this year. They&#8217;ve slumped in recent months amid worries about the company&#8217;s outlook, which the retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/american-eagle-stock-drops-after-apparel-retailer-pulls-outlook-11734287\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulled in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways American Eagle shares took off Monday after the president praised its recent ad campaign with actress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-119073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972418625156106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119073","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=119073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}