Overview
- Sweeney said she does not support views some have attached to the ad and stated she is against hate and division.
- She told People that assumptions about her motives and labels were untrue and that her past silence had widened the rift.
- The controversy centers on the line “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” widely heard as a play on “great genes.”
- In November, she avoided a clear repudiation in a GQ interview, while American Eagle defended the spot as focusing on jeans and personal stories.
- Far‑right groups embraced the reading, with President Donald Trump publicly praising the campaign.