The White House's communications director has joined the voices of people miffed by the outrage over an American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney.
Steven Cheung, a longtime adviser for President Donald Trump and the White House communications director, blamed the response to the controversial ad on "cancel culture run amok."
"This warped, moronic and dense liberal thinking is a big reason why Americans voted the way they did in 2024," he wrote on X July 29, in response to an MSNBC op-ed that said it was "fair" to condemn Sweeney's ad. He added that people are "tired of this" and using a profanity.
Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad sparks controversy: Here's why
The ad campaign, made in a larger partnership between the "Euphoria" actress and the popular brand, used wordplay to describe Sweeney, 27, who appears in jeans as having "good genes." Critics have said the jeans campaign amounts to a dog whistle for eugenics and a glorification of whiteness.
