JD Vance offers hot take on Sydney Sweeney’s ‘attractiveness’ amid woke jeans ad drama

Vice President JD Vance chimed in on the furious debate over an American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.

‘My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi. That appears to be their actual strategy,’ Vance joked in an interview published Friday.

Speaking on The Ruthless Podcast, the vice president ridiculed the left and Democrats for their reaction to the ad campaign that featured Sweeney and the slogan ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.’

Critics on the left accused the ad’s message as racist and compared it to ‘Nazi propaganda’ because of the pun using jeans with genes. One MSNBC producer wrote that the ad showed ‘an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness.’

Vance joked that the Democrats had not learned anything from the previous election in their loss to Donald Trump.

‘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?’ he said.

‘To try to sell, you know, sell jeans to kids in America, and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing,’ he added.

In the ad, Sweeney wears all denim and says, ‘Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color.’

U.S. Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House

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‘My jeans are blue,’ she adds in the viral ad campaign.

Vance said he thought Democrats would try to be ‘less crazy’ in the future.

‘The lesson they have apparently taken is we’re going to attack people as Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is beautiful. Great strategy, guys,’ he joked. ‘That’s how you’re going to win the midterms.’ Especially young American men.’

The White House also criticized the left’s backlash to the ad, describing it as ‘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,’ wrote White House communications manager Steven Cheung on social media earlier in the week.

Ashley Schapiro, Vice President of marketing at American Eagle revealed on LinkedIn after the ad campaign went viral that Sweeney was ‘game’ to ‘push’ the campaign into controversial territory.

‘Syd’s sentiment guided every frame, every stitch and every unexpected twist of The ‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ campaign,’ Schapiro revealed, ‘Infusing our own personal cheeky energy and making us laugh as we envisioned how the world would experience the launch,’ she said.

Schapiro heralded the team behind the spot for creating ‘a moment in culture … styled…with a wink.’