Sydney Sweeney Stands Her Ground in GQ Interview

“I know who I am. I know what I value. I know that I’m a kind person,” Sweeney told the publication. “I know that I love a lot, and I know that I’m just excited to see what happens next. And so I don’t really let other people define who I am.”

When the reporter asked Sweeney directly if she “was surprised by the reaction” to the ad, she responded: “I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans.”

“All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life,” the “Christy” star continued.

“She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad,” Trump told reporters. He added, “If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”

NEW: Sydney Sweeney refuses to apologize for the American Eagle jeans ad after GQ's Katherine Stoeffel continuously tried to get her to cave.

Stoeffel: I mean, Trump tweeted about the jeans ad ... that just seems like a very crazy moment...

Sweeney: It was surreal.

Stoeffel:… pic.twitter.com/F9ihaeMqeq

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 6, 2025

When the interviewer asked Sweeney if she felt “thankful” that “very powerful people” like POTUS “had [her] back in public,” she replied, “Hm, I don’t think that … it’s not that I didn’t have that feeling but I wasn’t thinking of it like that, of any of it.”

Vance, meanwhile, ripped Democrats for becoming unhinged over a “pretty girl” selling jeans to kids in America.

In the GQ interview, Sweeney said that she ignored the noise about the ad.

“I kind of just put my phone away,” she shared. “I was filming every day. I’m filming ‘Euphoria,‘ so I’m working 16-hour days and I don’t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn’t really see a lot of it.”

“When I saw all the headlines of in-store visits were down a certain percentage, none of it was true,” she explained. “It was all made up, but nobody could say anything because [the company was] in their quiet period. So it was all just a lot of talk. And because I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”

When asked if she wanted to specifically comment on the ad and why it garnered criticism, Sweeney told the reporter: “I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.”

“I think that if somebody is closed off because of something they read online to a powerful story like ‘Christy,’ then I hope that something else can open their eyes to being open to art and being open to learning, and I’m not going to be affected by that,” she said.