{"id":2004199,"date":"2025-09-07T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004199"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:16:29","slug":"sydney-sweeney-just-acknowledged-the-american-eagle-ad-backlash-for-the-first-time-and-she-made-one-thing-very-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sydney-sweeney-just-acknowledged-the-american-eagle-ad-backlash-for-the-first-time-and-she-made-one-thing-very-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Just Acknowledged The American Eagle Ad Backlash For The First Time, And She Made One Thing Very Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The backlash went pretty much as follows: On Aug. 1, American Eagle issued a statement doubling down on the campaign and its themes, which was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kristatorres\/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-response\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"not received well\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68bb3fb8e4b0acb9ffebed26\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kristatorres\/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-response\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">not received well<\/a>. The White House <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ellendurney\/white-house-defends-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-jeans-ad\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"defended the ad\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68bb3fb8e4b0acb9ffebed26\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ellendurney\/white-house-defends-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-jeans-ad\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">defended the ad<\/a>, Sydney was subsequently outed as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/natashajokic1\/sydney-sweeney-registered-republican\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"registered Republican\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68bb3fb8e4b0acb9ffebed26\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/natashajokic1\/sydney-sweeney-registered-republican\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">registered Republican<\/a>, and then <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> got involved to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/natashajokic1\/donald-trump-taylor-swift-sydney-sweeney\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"voice his support\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68bb3fb8e4b0acb9ffebed26\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/natashajokic1\/donald-trump-taylor-swift-sydney-sweeney\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\">voice his support<\/a> of the actor and her AE campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, the 27-year-old had been publicly apolitical, even when responding to backlash over pictures she posted from a family party where attendees could be seen wearing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/leylamohammed\/sydney-sweeney-mom-birthday-party-controversy-maga-hats\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"MAGA-style hats and \u201cBlue Lives Matter\u201d tops\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68bb3fb8e4b0acb9ffebed26\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/leylamohammed\/sydney-sweeney-mom-birthday-party-controversy-maga-hats\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"6\">MAGA-style hats and \u201cBlue Lives Matter\u201d tops<\/a> in the background.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backlash went pretty much as follows: On Aug. 1, American Eagle issued a statement doubling down on the campaign and its themes, which was not received well. The White House defended the ad, Sydney was subsequently outed as a registered Republican, and then Donald Trump got involved to voice his support of the actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2004200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[338909,309386],"class_list":["post-2004199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-american-eagle","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sydney-Sweeney-Just-Acknowledged-The-American-Eagle-Ad-Backlash-For.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}