Sydney Sweeney shared a message for her “brother-in-arms” and other military members deployed overseas.
Overseas Facetime
Sweeney posted a picture of her younger brother, Trent, wearing a camouflage uniform and helmet and smiling at the camera on her Instagram Story on Wednesday.
She captioned the post with, “Receiving calls from my bro always make me happy when he’s deployed.”
She added, “Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas and sending my love! Thank you for your service :)” The pair were video-chatting when she took the screenshot.
Trent Sweeney
Trent Sweeney is in the US Air Force, getting promoted to staff sergeant in August 2025.
He shared the promotion on Instagram while poking fun at his sister’s American Eagle jeans ad campaign. The campaign sparked sharp controversy, especially with the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans [genes.]”
However, her brother Trent got in on the fun, posting his promotion certificate and captioning the post with, “It’s them good jeans 🥸.”
He also wrote, “I’m excited for this next step in my career and thank everyone that’s been a part of it so far.”
Sydney and Trent has always been quite close, with Trent joining her at many social events, including the European premiere of Echo Valley in London last June.
Family is super important to Sweeney, sharing in a 2023 interview with Women’s Health, “I love my family, and I love where I came from. Anything my family needs, I’m always there for them.”
As of now, it’s unclear whether Trent’s deployment is connected to the war in Iran.
Sweeney and Politics
Sydney Sweeney has been immersed in the political world, though not by choice.
Her American Eagle campaign was seen by some as “Nazi propaganda,” while others have come to call her the “MAGA Barbie” since she’s a registered Republican.
However, this is not what Sweeney is about.
She shared with Cosmopolitan, “I’ve never been here to talk about politics. I’ve always been here to make art, so this is just not a conversation I want to be at the forefront of.”
She continued, “People want to take it even further and use me as their own pawn. But it’s somebody else assigning something to me, and I can’t control that. I just have to continue being who I am, because I know who I am. I can’t make everyone love me.”
She finished her statement by saying, “I’m in the arts. I’m not here to speak on politics. That’s not an area I’ve ever even imagined getting into. It’s not why I became who I am.” ‘