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Donald Trump is all in on Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle ad campaign ... and it's all because of her voter registration.

The prez was taking questions from reporters Sunday evening -- when one brought up that Sweeney had been revealed as a registered Republican over the weekend.

Trump seemed surprised to learn the actress was part of his political party ... responding, "Now I love her ad."

Katy Perry's concert took a scary turn Sunday night ... when a fan collapsed onstage just moments after being invited up.

Perry was performing in Detroit ... a little over an hour into the show, she invited a group of young fans onstage for a sing-along segment. One of the girls burst into tears, hugging Perry the moment they met.

Just before Perry began singing, the emotional fan went down. Perry immediately rushed to her side, crouching next to the girl along with security and other arena staffers.

The St. Louis, Missouri couple who went viral for pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters from their lawn in 2020 are back in ownership of their semi-automatic rifle.

Check it out ... Mark McCloskey posted on X Friday, touting the alleged development by sharing a video of himself grabbing his AR-15 from a box at the local police department.

He also celebrated the victory in another post, writing ... "It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!" Mark blasted the left for their alleged smear campaign against him as well.

Hoping for an apology from American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad? Don’t hold your breath -- the company dropped a statement and they're sticking to their guns.

In an official IG post Friday, they clarified the "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" tag is, and always has been, about jeans ... subtly shutting down critics who linked the ad to white-supremacy eugenics.

The statement declares the ad is all about Sydney’s jeans and her story ... adding that as a brand, they're all about celebrating how everyone rocks their AE jeans with confidence.

Lizzo is getting in on the frenzy surrounding Sydney Sweeney's new ad ... showing her followers what kind of ad they could expect in Biden's America in a joking new post.

The singer-songwriter shared a photoshopped pic of herself in an all-denim 'fit ... lying back in a seductive manner like Sweeney did for American Eagle just last week.

Remember ... people are up in arms about a new advert featuring Sweeney in a denim outfit, claiming she's got great genes jeans -- with some accusing American Eagle of racist dog whistling.

Tyra Banks is back at it, giving us TMI we never asked for -- but hey, she’s proud of it, and this time, she’s all about digging dirt from her man's feet and popping pimples.

The former model spilled the beans on her "disgusting and erotic" habit -- her words, not ours -- on "Today With Jenna & Friends" this Thursday ... and turns out, she’s into scraping stuff off toes, particularly the "toe jam" that’s occasionally brown, green, and ... stinky.

Tyra confessed it’s pretty much an addiction -- 'cause she's also all about staring down anyone with a pimple, practically itching to get her hands on it.

Horrifying video shows the moment an amusement park ride snaps in two, sending riders crashing to the ground ... leaving dozens licking their wounds.

Footage out of Saudi Arabia captures the whole incident involving a carnival ride called 360 Degrees ... riders are strapped in chairs on the revolving ride, and they swing up and down -- until chaos hits.

The ride's central pole breaks in half like a twig -- gravity takes over and the revolving platform comes hurtling down ... and the impact sends debris and broken ride parts flying through the air.

5:46 PM PT -- TMZ wrongly attributed the information to an American Eagle spokesperson when this post was originally published. We have reached out to AE, but they had no comment.

American Eagle's feeling good about its new Sydney Sweeney commercial -- despite all the controversy ... they might have good reason to blow off critics claiming the ad focuses on Nazi-like eugenics, pushing blonde hair and blue eyes as aspirational.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the ad campaign is creating tremendous buzz and their independent polling shows the vast majority of folks -- around 70% -- find the commercial appealing.

The spot centers around Sydney buttoning up some AE jeans and touting her biological makeup, where she breathily says, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color ... my jeans are blue."

Sydney Sweeney's pissing off liberals because she's hot and white ... so says conservative commentator Michael Knowles.

We caught up with the Daily Wire host Wednesday to discuss Sweeney's new American Eagle ad campaign ... which some have claimed is filled with implicit racism.

If you haven't seen the ad yet, Sydney's wearing the heck out of a jean jacket and matching pants ... she breathily talks about genetic traits, including eye color, and she says "My jeans are blue," with the tagline "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans" -- a potential double entendre for genes.

Doctors in Russia showed a steady hand as their operating room shook when a massive earthquake rocked the area ... calmly continuing a surgical operation amid the chaos.

Video shows a patient going under the knife Wednesday as an 8.8-magnitude quake hits ... gurneys, monitors and stools start rocking and shaking, but medics spring into action and hold on to their patient for dear life.

The good docs keep the patient steady as the quake jolts the room ... with one doc deftly moving a stool out of the way as some equipment crashes to the floor.

Demented trolls are poking fun at one of the NYC shooter's victims this week ... saying a corporate real-estate executive got "LUIGI'D" -- a reference to alleged UnitedHealthCare CEO killer Luigi Mangione.

Social media scoundrels posted a photo on X of a woman named Wesley LePatner -- senior managing director of Blackstone -- who was one of 4 people fatally shot by Shane Tamura inside a Manhattan skyscraper Monday night before he took his own life.

The pic shows LePatner in a corporate setting with the word “LUIGI’D” stamped across her face in big red letters, along with a caption that reads, “Wesley LePatner, CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, has been evicted from the mortal plane."

A WNBA game on Tuesday night was delayed several minutes ... because of a flying sex toy.

Seriously.

The wild scene -- click here if you wanna see it -- unfolded late in the fourth quarter of the Valkyries vs. Dream matchup at the Gateway Center in College Park, Ga. ... when a fan decided to hurl a neon green dildo onto the court as the two teams were tied at 75 with one minute to play.

Sydney Sweeney is the newest face and voice of American Eagle ... a point of contention for much of the internet -- including Doja Cat, who couldn't help but guffaw and ridicule the ad!!!

Doja hopped on TikTok and mocked Sydney with an exaggerated backwoods country accent, with extra drawling emphasis to make the "Euphoria" actress sound stupid.

The American Eagle spot centers around Sydney touting her biological makeup, where she breathily says, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color ... my jeans are blue."

12:06 PM PT -- A rep for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office tells TMZ ... detectives identified the Delta copilot as Rustom Bhagwagar, saying they've been in the throes of an investigation since April 2025 after receiving information about sex crimes against a child. Police took out an arrest warrant for Bhagwagar and got tipped off that he was flying into San Francisco International Airport last night.

With the help of federal authorities, Contra Costa investigators met the plane at the Delta terminal and arrested Bhagwagar on the spot. Bhagwagar was taken to the county jail and booked on five counts of oral copulation with a child under 10 years of age. He is being held on $5 million bail.

A Delta Airlines copilot went from the cockpit to federal custody after he was arrested shortly after he landed a commercial airliner in California.

It all went down around 9:30 PM Saturday ... the copilot flew the packed jet from Minneapolis to San Francisco International Airport, where he landed and parked at one of the gates.

Moments later, federal agents stormed the aircraft with guns and badges, heading straight for the cockpit.

Tyra Banks is the crumb guzzler, because she's got a unique way of cleaning up crumbs around the house ... she doesn't need a vacuum or a brush, she uses her fingers and mouth!!!

The supermodel revealed her crumb cleaning secret Monday on "Today with Jenna & Friends" ... and there's no five-second rule in Tyra's house.

Tyra says she loves to eat popcorn and ice cream in bed ... and if she finds some crumbs lying around, she just picks them up with her finger and eats them on the spot ... even if the crumbs have been there for a week!!!

The man officials say is the airplane passenger who got tackled on a flight after shouting "Death to America, Death to Trump" just took another hit ... we're told he's been identified and slapped with multiple criminal charges.

Prosecutors in Scotland tell TMZ ... the man in the viral video is 41-year-old Abhay Nayak, and he's been charged with assault, plus a violation of the United Kingdom's air navigation order.

We're told Nayak has not entered a plea yet and he's in custody awaiting his next court appearance.