Pete Hegseth has not joined the "Great Jeans" trend post-Sydney Sweeney American eagle scandal. However, it's the Department of Defense which shared an image of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's image, where he can be seen wearing a blue blazer coupled with jeans. The caption tagged the Defense Secretary's X account and said:

“Not-so-thinly-veiled white supremacy but let’s use sex appeal to soften the blow,” a marketing consultant, Bridget Poetker, wrote in a now-viral LinkedIn post. “Eugenics. racism. ableism,” she added.