So last week, I scrolled through X and stumbled on a storm I didn’t expect: Sydney Sweeney, the 27-year-old Euphoria star, under fire for—wait for it—a jeans commercial. American Eagle’s “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign, built on a cheeky genes/jeans pun, has been labeled everything from “eugenics propaganda” to “white supremacy.”
And now, they’re outraged because her voter registration shows that she’s a Republican – Florida voter records show that Sweeney registered as a Republican in Monroe County on June 14, 2024.
No one had to tell me Sydney Sweeney was a Republican.
Of course she is, look at her. pic.twitter.com/Rjs5AnUudM
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 2, 2025
people are shocked that Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican.
did y’all meet Sydney’s family and friends before???pic.twitter.com/skZUcV2r18 https://t.co/4fTV7P4Y8d
— 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖔 (@_monarcho) August 2, 2025
Let me tell you a story that should be understood. When I was voting for my first time in a voting booth, my mom and my local neighbors, whom I told you about in a different article, ran it. The point is, when I closed that curtain, nobody but the election committee or God knew who I was voting for. Now we have everyone snooping around for a scandal due to wrongthink. Sydney shouldn’t have to worry about who she voted for.
We are only a few years beyond the Me Too movement and the left’s morals are so malleable that woman-groping weirdo Pedro Pascal is now considered a hero and successful model and actress Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi for wearing denim.
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 30, 2025
Now back on track here. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung nailed it on X, calling the Sweeney backlash “cancel culture run amok” and a product of “warped, moronic, and dense liberal thinking.”
He’s not wrong. The ad’s critics are projecting sinister motives onto a campaign that’s about one thing: selling denim. American Eagle’s stock surged 4% after the ad dropped, proving the free market still rewards common-sense marketing over manufactured controversy.
Sweeney herself? She’s no political firebrand. The actress has stayed silent on her voter registration, and for good reason—why should she have to justify her private choices? She’s supported causes like LGBTQ+ rights, transgender rights, Black Lives Matter, and pro-choice initiatives, hardly the resume of a far-right ideologue.
A 2022 flap over MAGA-style hats at her mom’s birthday party? Sweeney clarified those weren’t her family’s views. Yet, the internet sleuths keep digging, as if registering Republican in Florida—the state she calls home—is evidence of some grand conspiracy.
Sydney Sweeney is going viral for allegedly registering as a Republican voter in 2024 pic.twitter.com/5Eky7Lo6ZM
— yeet (@Awk20000) August 2, 2025
Sweeney’s a young woman navigating a polarized world, and instead of celebrating her talent or compassion, critics are trying to cancel her for a marketing campaign and a voter registration form.
This whole mess is a symptom of a bigger problem: a culture so obsessed with finding fault and wrongthink it can’t see straight.
Sweeney’s ad isn’t a political statement; it’s a reminder that not every blonde, blue-eyed actress is plotting world domination. Americans are tired of every ad, every celebrity, being dissected for secret motives. The battle isn’t just about defending Sweeney—it’s about reclaiming a culture that values truth over tantrums.
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