President Donald Trump is now a huge Sydney Sweeney fan, though it appears to only be because she’s a registered Republican. Sweeney, 27, has made headlines recently due to her role in a controversial American Eagle ad campaign that has been accused of promoting eugenics. Shortly after the ads dropped, multiple news outlets reported that Sydney registered as a member of the Republican Party in June 2024.
In a video shared by LiveNOW from Fox, a reporter asked Trump how he felt about Sweeney being a registered Republican. Trump didn’t know this about Sweeney, but this information seemed to change his perception of her. “Oh, now I love her ad,” Trump told the reporter.
He went on to say, “You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s one 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.”
Though the comments made his love for Sweeney seem conditional, he took to Truth Social to praise her and the American Eagle ad campaign on August 4, 2025. For some reason, he also brought Taylor Swift into it.
“Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there,” Trump wrote. “It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sydney!”
@livenowfox President Trump departed Allentown, Pennsylvania, en route to the White House this Sunday. He discussed tariffs, the economy, and wars and conflicts he says he helped stop. The President also mentioned the recent controversy around actress Sydney Sweeney.
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He went on to criticize Jaguar for releasing “a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement.” He suggested that the car company should have “learned a lesson from Bud Lite, which went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short campaign, the Company.”
Trump was trying to make the point that “being WOKE is for losers.” He used Taylor Swift as another example to support this claim. “Just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift,” Trump wrote. “Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT.”
Donald Trump says that his posts are the reason that “woke singer” Taylor Swift is “no longer hot”:
— Pop Base (@PopBase) August 4, 2025
“Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sydney! […] Just look at… pic.twitter.com/wLmw66OUZT
This is not the first time Trump has claimed that Swift is “no longer hot.” In May 2025, he took to Truth Social to assert that the pop star isn’t “hot” anymore. At the time, he wrote, “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?'”
To Trump, this serves as proof that “the tide has seriously turned.” He wrapped up his recent post with, “Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Trump’s rant raised a lot of questions — namely, as one person wrote on X, “Does he not have more important things to worry about?” To some, the post also felt “embarrassing.”
A second X user wrote, “The country is in shambles and their president is busy harassing a pop star every opportunity he gets.”
Others accused the president of being “jealous” of and “obsessed” with Taylor Swift in a way that comes across as “creepy.”
