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Perth Now
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- Perth Now
Donald Trump lauds Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle campaign
Donald Trump has hailed Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle advertising campaign. The US President has lavished praise on the Euphoria actress - who has been identified as a registered Republican in Florida - for featuring in the "hottest" commercial for the brand's jeans, even though it has been criticised on social media and sparked a debate about beauty standards. Trump 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 off the shelves'. Go get 'em Sydney!" The White House chief compared the advertisement to car manufacturer Jaguar's ill-fated rebrand last year, which he branded as a "seriously woke advertisement" and a "total disaster". Trump, 79, also used his post to take aim at Taylor Swift - whom he clashed with previously after she endorsed his rival Kamala Harris in last year's presidential election - as he described her as a "woke singer". He said: "Ever since I alerted the world as to when 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. The tide has seriously turned - Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" A public database in Florida shows that Sweeney, 27, was registered as a Republican voter in the state last June - with the matter being discovered by a YouTuber who came across it as she put together a profile of The White Lotus star. American Eagle defended the actress last week after the campaign's tagline 'Sydney Sweeney has great jeans' was criticised because the phrase "great genes" is associated with eugenicists - who argue that humanity can be improved genetically through selective breeding. The company wrote in an Instagram post: "'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans' is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. "We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone." Sydney revealed that she was "freaking out" when she was approached to star in the campaign. She said: "I was freaking out because I was like, 'This is perfect', and I was so excited. "When they were like, 'We want it to be a denim campaign', I was through the roof. I was like, 'This is it. This is Syd. I will be able to bring this to life. You have no idea.'"
Sky News AU
14 hours ago
- Sky News AU
'He loves having a crack at them': US President Donald Trump throws fresh shade at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland
Donald Trump has been accused of throwing fresh shade at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week. The 79-year-old US President, who visited Scotland on an unofficial trip, praised the British royal family before appearing to take a pointed swipe at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. "Being with Charles, Camilla and everybody, I've got to know a lot of the family members," he said. "They are great people. They are really great people." He then added, "And in that sense, I think the UK is very lucky, you could have people that weren't great people. I don't know if I can say that, but you could have people that weren't." Starmer remained quiet through the remarks, before awkwardly responding: "We're very lucky to have our Royal Family." The moment quickly caught the attention of royal watchers online, with many suggesting Trump was once again "having a crack" at the Sussexes, who stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and now live in California. Speaking on The Royal Report on Sunday, Caroline Di Russo noted that Trump's latest remarks were hardly out of character. "This is definitely not the first time," she said. News Corp columnist Angela Mollard agreed. "He loves having a crack at the Sussexes," she said. "He's said all sorts of things about Meghan for years. He's talked about her being nasty to him, how she's a 'terrible person', how Harry is 'whipped by her' and that 'he's under her thumb'." Mollard also pointed to long-standing speculation over Prince Harry's visa status in the United States. "Of course, there's some beef between Trump and Harry over whether or not he's lied over his immigration papers, because of course, Harry wrote in Spare about taking drugs." She also observed Starmer's attempts to keep the press conference on track. "I just loved watching Keir Starmer," Mollard said. "He was clearly trying to save it from going wrong. Trump's saying lovely things about Charles and Camilla, he adores William obviously… and then you just don't want him to drop them in it, because it's politics- you've got to get on with everybody. "But Trump will always put his two cents in, and he certainly did here. "I think we'll still be hearing more from him in the future about the royal family- and particularly Harry and Meghan." Trump wasn't the only high-profile figure to weigh in on the Sussexes last week. Martha Stewart also raised eyebrows when asked about Meghan's lifestyle brand As Ever during an interview with Yahoo Lifestyle. "It wasn't so much of a dig, per se, but she did get asked about Meghan, and she did say that she 'didn't really know Meghan'… and that she 'hopes she knows what she's talking about'," The Daily Express Royal Reporter Pandora Forsyth told The Royal Report. "And she (Martha)'s quite right. Authenticity online and being a brand is so, so important. In fact, it's key to speaking to your audience- you need to come across as real, and you also need to know what you're talking about." Forsyth said that Meghan has "been called out" over the years, and that her "authenticity has been brought into light". "So I think Martha's just hitting the nail on the head," she said. "She (Meghan) needs to know what she's talking about." Forsyth added that "only time will tell" if the former actress can sustain a legacy in the lifestyle space like Stewart. The Duchess of Sussex, who turned 44 on Monday, took to Instagram to share a short clip featuring her As Ever brand's signature Napa Valley rosé, which sold out less than an hour after it launched on July 1 via the As Ever website. "Goodness in a glass. Right around the corner… Cheers to August!" read the caption.
Sky News AU
15 hours ago
- Sky News AU
'The View' co-host criticises Kamala Harris' post-campaign interview with Stephen Colbert
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin described former Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with Stephen Colbert as a "microcosm" of everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party after the party lost in 2024. "I was struck by, I'm going to try not be too harsh on this. This interview felt like a microcosm of everything that's wrong with Democrats post-election. I'm going to CBS and this sort of trying to make a point that they fired Stephen Colbert, which many on the left called an attack on democracy, a man who was making $20 million a year, someone I hold in high esteem, but the economics of his show were not working," Griffin said during an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five" on Saturday. CBS announced in July that they would be ending Colbert's late-night show at the end of the next broadcast season, citing financial reasons. However, Colbert's liberal allies believe the cancellation was political, as it came days after he criticized CBS' parent company, Paramount, for settling with President Donald Trump. "He was losing $40 million a year. He was in the Ed Sullivan Theater, which is expensive, to talk about the plight of democracy at CBS, a network that's having its own struggles right now, rather than talking about the economics of the situation and playing to something a shrinking audience that is network television, not realizing it's not where the American voters are," Griffin, an anti-Trump Republican who voted for Harris in 2024, continued. Griffin said Harris decision to appear on Colbert was like "announcing your exploratory committee on the sinking deck of the Titanic." CNN data analyst Harry Enten dismissed Harris' comments during the interview about a broken system. "Recently, I made the decision that I just – for now, I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken," Harris told Colbert after he asked about her declining a potential California gubernatorial run. "I just can't possibly believe that someone who was attorney general for a good period of time, a United States senator for a good period of time, and then vice president for four years and then ran for president, all of a sudden believes that the best way to solve it is from being outside the system. Oh, please. Not a chance on God's green earth that that's necessarily the case," Enten said, reacting to Harris' remarks. "What's probably going on is she saw what the polling numbers were, perhaps for her running for governor of California. Yes, she has left open the idea that maybe she could run in 2028 for the Democratic nomination. But I'll tell you Abby, I've looked at those numbers. She would be the weakest front-runner since 1992. So the bottom line is this, she is looking at the numbers. She knows what's cooking. And then all of a sudden, you know what? Actually, this lifelong politician, I want to be outside the system. Give me a break," the CNN data analyst added. Harris announced on Thursday she would be releasing a book on her failed 2024 campaign. Harris, in a video posted to social media on Thursday, announced that her new book, titled "107 Days," will be released in September and will provide details on what she calls "the shortest presidential campaign in modern history." "I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward," Harris said. Originally published as 'The View' co-host criticises Kamala Harris' post-campaign interview with Stephen Colbert
