"Jews were massacred and murdered, and they equate that to a blue jeans ad for a Hollywood actress?" he said of the response to the campaign. "What an insult."

Dr. Phil McGraw spoke out in support of American Eagle’s controversial campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney. During an appearance on the Friday, August 8, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the therapist,

Sydney Sweeney's brother has broken his silence on her controversial American Eagle jeans ad. Newsweek reached out to Sweeney's representative for comment on Friday via email and Trent Sweeney via Instagram outside regular working hours.