Degrading, racist, sexist, shot to satisfy the male gaze... every detail of Sydney Sweeney ’s new ad campaign for American Eagle has drawn harsh criticism. For the past week or so , social networks have been abuzz with indignation at images of the actress posing lasciviously in her “great jeans”—a tagline that has eugenicist undertones, according to detractors.

Now, even Donald Trump apparently has an opinion on the matter. “She's a registered Republican?” he said on Sunday after a reporter told him Sweeney’s alleged political affiliation. “Oh, now I love her ad… 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.” (Sweeney is registered a

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