JD Vance slams 'insane' backlash over Sydney Sweeney Ad: 'Dems call you Nazis for liking her'

Al Bawaba

4 days ago

ALBAWABA - JD Vance defends Sydney Sweeney amid backlash, mocking liberals for outrage over American Eagle jeans ad.
Vice President JD Vance jumped into the debate over the Sydney Sweeney ad for American Eagle jeans with a smile on his face and told lefties to keep their anger up.
'My political advice to the Democrats is to continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,' Vance said jokingly on Friday's episode of the conservative 'Ruthless' podcast. It looks like that's their real plan.
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: U.S. Vice President JD Vance (/AFP)
Vance continued, 'I 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're trying to sell jeans to American kids, but this thing has made them so unstable. It's like, "You guys, did you learn nothing from the election in November 2024?"
'I actually thought that one of the lessons [Democrats] might take is we're going to be less crazy. The lesson they seem to have learned is that we will call people Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is pretty, Vance told the hosts of "Ruthless," who just signed a deal to join Fox News. "Great plan, guys!" Particularly, young American men are the key to winning the midterm elections.
Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle campaign is receiving criticism for a 'jeans/genes' pun that some say echoes eugenics and white supremacy rhetoric.
Right-wing voices are celebrating the ad as a pushback against 'wokeness.' pic.twitter.com/Q6LkOoAqbi
July 29, 2025
'So much of the Democrats is oriented around hostility to basic American life. "They can't help but freak out when they see a pretty girl in a jeans ad," Vance said. "It tells us a lot less than it tells them."
People have gone crazy online over the American Eagle ads with Sweeney because they think the play on words with "genes" and "jeans" has a eugenicist meaning and is an allegedly racist way to make her white background look better. CNN White House producer Alejandra Jaramillo, on the other hand, says that "no prominent Democratic Party leaders or officials have commented on the ad."
The ad campaign for American Eagle was meant to have fun wordplay. Sweeney says, "Genes are passed down from parents to children" in one of the ads. He then looks at the camera and says, "My jeans are blue." In a different scene, she stands in front of a sign that says, "Sydney Sweeney has great genes." The word "genes" is crossed out, and the word "jeans" is written in its place.
This week, Steve Cheung, a spokesman for the White House, said that the reaction was "cancel culture run amok."
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 tired of this bullshit. pic.twitter.com/He7Ji6O3VF — Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) July 29, 2025
"This twisted, stupid, and dense liberal thinking is a big part of why Americans chose to vote the way they did in 2024." "They're sick of this nonsense," Cheung wrote about the ad on X, including a picture of an MSNBC opinion piece called "Sydney Sweeney's ad displays an unchecked cultural shift toward whiteness."