The Daily Show took a day off from the Trump/Epstein scandal on Thursday to talk about Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad, which has received backlash for a slogan that some are arguing echoes language used in the eugenics era.
The criticism the ad has received has prompted a backlash from right wing online commentators and the White House itself, with communications director Steven Cheung describing it as “cancel culture run amok.”
In the monologue above, Daily Show host Desi Lydic mocks the various pundits responding to the story, from creepy uses of the word “sensual” to Megyn Kelly defending Sweeney after previously making fun of her.
“This is such bullshit. Blonde women have had constant representation, okay?” concludes Lydic. “It’s not that they want to see more white women, it’s that they want to see none of anyone else.”
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