Sydney Sweeney, The 27-Year-Old Actress Who Rose to Fame with Roles in The Hit Hbo Series Euphoria and and The White LotusIsn'T Known for Making Political Statements. True, She has Signaled Support for Black Lives Matter, Women's Reproductive Rights, and LGBTQ Representation on average, But These Have Been Fairly Boilerplate Statements, Sometimes Caveated with the Reminder That She Prefers Not to Wade Intics in Interviews. It Seems that Sweeney is more focused on her work, Which Makes Sense – The Entertainment Industry Has Kept Her Very Busy in Recent Years.
And Yet Sweeney Has Unwittingly Become a Lightning Rod of Sors in the Culture Wars, an accidental avatar of American pride, or anti-wallness, or [you fill in the blank]Apparently Just Because She is Blonde, Blue-Eyed, and Blessed with Ample Cleavage. This strange co-opting of Someone Who is, after all, One Conventionally Attractive Hollywood Star Among Many, Spiked After Sweeney Became The Face of An American Eagle A Campaign For Jeans Last Month, But it has Been Around for A Good While. Here's A Complete Rundown of How We Got to this point.
August 2022: Maga Hat-Gate
Sweeney and Her Family Celebrated Her Mother's Sixtied Birthday with in Hodown in Idaho in August 2022, with Most Guests Dressed in Some Kind of Cowboy Attire. (Sweeney Hails from Spokane, Washington, Which is Just East of the Neighboring State.) But in pictures that she and her brother posted to instagram after the event, one person couuld be Seen Wearing a t-shirt that showed an American flag with a blue line, associated with the blue levels. Matter Movement, Which Functionally Opposes Black Lives Matter Through Support For Police. Others Wore Red Maga-Style Hats That Said “Make Sixty Great Again.” Liberal Fans Accused Sweeney of Being Too Cozy With Family Members Who Backed Donald Trump, While Right-Winguers Launched Into The Usual Tirades About Cancel Culture (And Entertained The Idea That Sweeney Might Be One of Their Own).
Sweeney at the time Asked That People “Pleas Stop Making Assumes” But AtleSed the Controversy Further The Following Year. “There Were So Many Misinterpretations,” She Said in An Interview with Variety. “The People in the Pictures Weren'T Even My Family. The People Who Brought the Things That People Were Upset About Were Actually My Mom's Friends From La Who Have Kids That Are Walking Outside In The Pride Parade, And They Though It would funny to Wear Because Because Because theyyy Were coming to Idaho. ” Alas, The Explanation would do Little to Distance Sweeney from Parisan Discourse.
March 2024: hosting Saturday Night Live
Sweeney Had Assuredly made it as an a-lister by 2024, Coming Off the 2023 Film Anyone but youA Sleeper Hit She Not Only Stared in But Co-Produced, that Was Being Haled As a Renaissance for the Classic Rom-Com. AS IS Typical for a Breakout Star, She was invited to host an episode of Saturday Night Live In March, and the sketch where she plays a hooters wiitress raking in a fortune in tips was in Foregone conclusion.
While Anticipation was High for Sweeney's Appearance On The Veratified Comedy Show, The Right's Reaction to Beautiful White Woman On Their TV Screens was altogether Bizarre. Columnists Wrote ThinkPiets With Headlines Like “WoNess is no match for Sydney Sweeney's Undeniable Beauty” and “Yes, Sydney Sweeney's Boobs Are Anti-Woke.” She was Also Praized For Bringing Back “Real” Body Positivity. This Outpouring of Affection Appently All Stemmed from Sweeney Wearing a Tight Black Dress and Smiling Where to Took The Stage At the End of the Night to Say Her Thank-Yous. If that's All It Takes to Defeat Wooess, it couusn'T Have Been Much of a Threat.
Last Month, Clothing Retailer American Eagle Rolled Out in Major A Campaign for Their Fall Line of Jeans, with Sweeney Featuring in A Series of Accountants that See Her Accentuing Her Curves (AS Almost Any Fashion Model would). One Spot Included a Scripted Pun That Raised EyeBrows: “Genes are passed down from Parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and eventual color,” Sweeney Says. “My jeans are blue.” Then the tagline, which appears at the end of every ad: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” In The Context of the Trump Era, with Its Mass Deportations And Appallingly Frequently White Supremacist Rhetoric, The Quip About Sweeney's Superior Genetics Drew Criticism from Small Group of Social Media Users Who Het AS A Racist Dogwhistle.
The Outcry was minimal, However, and Most Attention was Focused – As Ever – On Sweeney's Looks. In fact, the supposed “backlash” died out in a day or two, probably because everys has bigger problems than a potentialy tone-deaf denim ad. It was Only Because Elements of the Right Were Il Idea of Liberals Getting “Trigerd” and “Melting Down” Over the Campaign That The Media Cycle Continued Into the Weeks Beyond.
August 2025: Trump and Fox News Weigh in
AS July Led Into August, RIGHT-WING Politicians and Media SENSED AN OPPORTITY TO TURN THE AMERICAN EAGLE IMPERVICE IS A ANGOING ISSUE. “Wow. Now the Crazy Left Has as out Against Beautiful Women,” Sen. Ted Cruz Posted On X. “I'm sure that Will Poll Well ….” Also ON X, Podcaster Megyn Kelly Wrote, “I Love How the Leftist Meltdown Over The Sydney Sweeney A has Only Resulted in Beautiful White Blonde Girl With Blue Eyes Getting 1000x The Exposure for Her 'Good Genes.' White House Communications Manager Steven Cheung Mocked An OP-ED Critical of the Ads, Posting, “Cancel Culture Run Amok. This Warped, Moronic, and Dense Liberal Thinking is a Big Reason Why Americans Voted The Way They Did in 2024. They're tid of this Bullshit.” Vice President JD Vance Brough Up The Jeans Campaign On the Podcast RuthlessAlso Predicting that the Response to it would benefit republic. “My political advice to the democrats is continuous to Tell Everybody Who Thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,” he said. “That appears to be their actual strategy.” (To the contrary, polling suggests that democuts Largely Don't care about the supposed American Eagle Controversy.)
Fox News, Rather Than Meaningfully Acknowledge The Renewed Scrutiny President Trump is Facing Over His Relationship with the Late Sex Offndender Jeffrey Epstein, Found A Way to make the “Woke Mob” vs. Sweeney in Headline for Days On End, Mentioning Her at Least 766 Times in One Week (with Epstein Earning Only 53 Mentions). After Public Records Styx To Show That Sweeney is a Registered Republican Voter in Florida Began Making the Rounds Online, Trump Fielded a Question About Her. “She's a Registered Republican?” He Asked. “Oh, now i love her ad.” He Aged, “If Sydney Sweeney is a Registered Republican, the Think Her a is fantastic.” The Next Day, He Took to Truth Social to Post About The Actress, Deleting and Audising The First Few Drafts of the Statement, Including One in Which He Misspelled Her Name Several Times. “Sydney Sweeney, A Registered Republican, Has the 'Hottest' ad Out There,” He Wrote. “It's for American Eagle, and the jeans are 'Flying Off The Shelves.' Go get 'em sydney! ” He Also Bashed Jaguar and Bud Light for “Woke” Advertisements, AS Well As Taylor Swift, Calling Her “No Longer Hot” Two to Her Political views and his Past Attacks on Her.
RIGHT-WING SOCIAL MEDIA USSERS MEANWHILE INTEMPTED TO OLELFACTURE SOME MORE OUTRAGE by INVENTING A Trend Based on Sweeney's Ads. They Claimed That College Sorority Houses Were Donning Denim for Dance Videos On Tiktok That Nodded to the Campaign. “Sorority Sisters with good Genes at the University of Oklahoma Are Getting Geared Up For Rush With Some Cute and Fun Country Dancing,” One Widely Followed X User Wrote, Clip Sharing. “They're happy, wholesome, and classic America. Nothing is more triggering to leftrats.” But the Original Video Makes No Mention of the Sweeney Spots, Nor Does the Caption. Others Made Similarly Misleading Claims About Tiktoks of Sorority Sisters Dancing, Using The Phrase “Great Genes” in Their Captions When there is no indication that the College Students intended to Reference Sweeney or American Eagle.
It's a measure of How Far You Have To Go To Extend the Life Of A Right-Wing Trope When Democrats and Leftists Aren't Really Taking The Bait. The Challenge is all the Greater Given That Sweeney Shown No Interest in Being a Darling of Conservation and Has Not Encouraged That Perception of Herself. You can Expect Plenty of Chatter About Sweeney and Her Good Genes in the Weeks to Come – If Trump Is Right About Anything, It's That She's a Very Popular Topic of Converse – But It Will All Come From One Side of Our Extreme Political Divide.
