Sydney Sweeney’s History With Trump Resurfaces After He Celebrated News She’s a Registered Republican—’Go Get ‘Em Sydney’
Jason Pham
President Donald Trump’s support of Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle ad is causing fans to wonder who she voted for in the 2024 presidential election.
Trump addressed Sweeney’s American Eagle ad in an interview with reporters while boarding Air Force One in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on August 3, 2025. “She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad!” he said. “Is that right, is Sydney Sweeney…? You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s what I wouldn’t have known. But I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic!”
Trump also wrote on Truth Social: “Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the HOTTEST ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying of the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sydney.”
The ad Trump is referring to is American Eagle’s “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign, which has led to backlash toward the company and Sweeney, with some believing that it promotes Sweeney’s white heritage.
“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color…my jeans are blue,” Sweeney says in the ad, which critics have interpreted the genes/jeans wordplay as support of the eugenics ideology, given Sweeney’s blonde hair, blue eyes, and white appearance.
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American Eagle, for its part, addressed the controversy in a statement in August 2025. “‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story,” American Eagle said in a statement at the time. “We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.”
Did Sydney Sweeney vote for Trump?
While Sweeney hasn’t confirmed whether she’s voted for Trump, The Guardian reported that she registered as a voter for the Republican party in Florida just a few months before Trump won his second United States presidential election in November 2024. Sweeney owns a $13.5 home in the Florida Keys, which was purchased in June 2024.
According to the Department of State for Florida, about 50 percent of Monroe County, which covers the Florida Keys, are registered Republicans. Trump also won Florida in the 2024 presidential election, as well as the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections.
Though Sweeney hasn’t publicly supported Trump, she did face criticism in 2022 when she shared photos from her mother Lisa Sweeney’s 60th birthday party, which included pictures of guests wearing “Blue Lives Matter” apparel and hats in the style of “Make America Great Again,” Trump’s slogan during the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections. Sweeney responded to the backlash with a tweet at the time.
“You guys this is wild. An innocent celebration for my moms milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions,” she wrote.
She also addressed the criticism in an interview with GQ UK in 2022. “Honestly, I feel like nothing I say can help the conversation,” she said, “It’s been turning into a wildfire, and nothing I can say will take it back to the correct track.”
She also told Variety in 2023 that there were “so many misinterpretations” about her mother’s birthday party. “There were so many misinterpretations,” she said. “The people in the pictures weren’t even my family.” She went on to suggest that the people who wore the MAGA-style hats were her “mom’s friends,” who thought “it would be funny.”
“The people who brought the things that people were upset about were actually my mom’s friends from LA who have kids that are walking outside in the Pride parade, and they thought it would be funny to wear because they were coming to Idaho,” she said.
She continued, “People are so fast to build someone up, and then they love tearing them down. And it’s so fascinating to see. Three years ago, I was going to college just like everybody else. And all of a sudden, I’m not a human anymore.”
