The White House has waded into the controversy surrounding the American Eagle jeans advertisement featuring Sydney Sweeney, with Communications Manager Steven Cheung lambasting the Left's overreaction to the ad's playful tagline, "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans," which cleverly plays on the phrase "great genes." This subtle wordplay has incited a flurry of criticism from liberal voices, who accused the campaign of extolling her Caucasian heritage and slender physique.
"Cancel culture has gone wild," Cheung fumed on X, referring to the advertisement. "This distorted, idiotic, and dense liberal mindset is a significant factor behind Americans' voting patterns in 2024. They're fed up with this nonsense."
In the commercial, Sweeney charmingly remarks, "Genes are passed down from parents to children, shaping traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans, however, are blue."
Conservative TV personality Megyn Kelly also weighed in, berating the "lunatics on the Left" for their excessive takedown of the ad, deeming their reaction "utterly absurd."
"Sydney Sweeney is being branded a white supremacist by those who dislike her latest ad for American Eagle," she exclaimed. "She's merely advertising jeans, yet these left-wing lunatics insist she's promoting white supremacy. Clearly, this is a nod to her physique, not her skin color, but the radical left will persist in their absurdity regardless."
Kelly continued, "They're furious because it's about who gets to embody America's Best Genes. They believe it's no coincidence that a white, thin woman was chosen, as if celebrating such attributes is somehow forbidden. But they completely overlook the reference to her body, for which she's renowned. It's sheer madness."
