Sydney Sweeney channeled a classic look reminiscent of a vintage Fox News anchor during her recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

This summer, Sweeney found herself at the center of a political storm due to her American Eagle jeans advertisement. The ad, which featured the phrase “good genes” alongside the blonde, blue-eyed actress, sparked outrage on social media. Critics went so far as to liken it to “Nazi propaganda,” igniting a heated debate.

Amidst the controversy, reports surfaced revealing Sweeney’s status as a registered Republican. This revelation drew backlash from her more liberal fans, while then-U.S. President Donald Trump added fuel to the fire with his quip: “Now I love her ad.”

For her latest interview, Sweeney appeared with a style reminiscent of a 2000s-era right-wing cable news host. The 28-year-old actress, known for her often daring fashion choices, opted for a more modest look. She donned a high-necked, long-sleeved scarlet dress, complete with shoulder pads, showcasing a shift towards a more conservative aesthetic for the evening.

The 28-year-old bombshell, who often shows off her amply endowed cleavage, was more conservatively attired for her Tonight Show appearance in a long high-necked scarlet dress with full sleeves and prominent shoulder pads.

Her bob was straightened out to a metallic sleekness and her youthful features were cocooned in heavy makeup including dark lipstick, bringing together a look that left one fan sniggering: ‘The Mar A Lago transition is almost complete.’

Sydney Sweeney was the image of a retro Fox News blonde when she went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week

‘Home girl looking more republican not the bob,’ remarked one as others slyly wrote that she was ‘getting ready for her fox news debut’ and ‘leaning into it.’

Still another quipped on X, formerly Twitter: ‘someone must conduct a study on how and why sydney sweeney is slowly shifting her aesthetic to fox news host.’ 

One more wondered: ‘why is she being styled like a 45yo republican?’ as another snorted: ‘Is she auditioning for Fox News? Lol.’

Sweeney’s longtime hairstylist Glen ‘Coco’ Oropeza defended his client after internet personality Blakely Thornton criticized her look and claimed she was wearing ‘the stiffest wig.’ 

‘Wasn’t a wig but you can’t get my girl’s name out of your mouth,’ Oropeza’s account allegedly commented under a since-deleted exchange. 

Sweeney went viral for her ‘Republican’ talk show look just weeks after two plastic surgeons warned the Daily Mail about the new phenomenon of ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ sweeping Washington, DC and Palm Beach, Florida.

In fact ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ is the latest nickname for a style of facial reconstruction that was previously known on social media as the ‘duck look.’

The new sobriquet comes from the speculation surrounding the striking features of some of the high-octane women in Trump’s orbit, such as Melania – who has denied having any major plastic surgery on her face – Kristi Noem and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The 28-year-old, who often shows off her buxom physique, was more conservatively attired in a long high-necked scarlet dress with full sleeves and raised shoulders

Her youthful complexion was cocooned in heavy makeup, bringing together a look that left one fan sniggering: ‘The Mar A Lago transition is almost complete’

 Although the look is attached in public perception to high-profile female Republicans, ordinary women and even some men are said to be requesting the makeover, and the prospective patients allegedly come from both sides of the political aisle. 

Last month, two plastic surgeons from the Washington, DC area delivered their scathing verdict on ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ to the Daily Mail.

Dr. Ayman Hakki, who owns the Luxxery Medical Spa, characterized ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ as a ‘higher forehead, a thinner nose, thicker lips and more of a defined jawline,’ leading to ‘almost a square duck look’ that is ‘actually worse than the duck look.’

Dr. Philip Schoenfeld of Renu Med Spa said the phrase ‘duck look’ was ‘about overdone lips,’ which is ‘just one part of you.’

Meanwhile the quest for ‘Mar-a-Lago’ face results – he argued – in ‘a whole overall overdone face’ wherein ‘your features become distorted. And that’s not rejuvenation, that’s transformation – and that’s where it gets dangerous.’

The surgeons did not express fears that fillers themselves are unsafe, but Dr. Hakki said the trend towards ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ could lead patients down a slippery slope at the bottom of which they end up resembling Michael Jackson or Lauren Sanchez.

Dr. Schoenfeld also said: ‘It becomes dangerous psychologically. But if you’re a good injector, you’re not going to endanger anybody.’

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However he noted that ‘if somebody wants permanent changes that make them look more like an Instagram post than an actual human being and they start distorting what reality looks like, I’m going to tell them: “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”‘

Dr. Hakki observed that there was ‘not a day in my practice that somebody does not come to me and tell me: “I want this look,”‘ and that in those cases he tries to dissuade potential patients by drawing their faces with a charcoal pencil on a pad.

He said such patients ‘definitely’ aspired to look like Melania, which ‘wasn’t considered really, really beautiful a few years ago, because it’s a little manly.’

Meanwhile celebrity makeup artist Erwin Gomez, who owns the Karma Beauty Lounge in the posh Georgetown neighborhood of the capital, has also said local women approach him to acquire the ‘Mar-a-Lago face.’  

‘I can’t even tell you how many times I do makeup, they end up showing me Melania. “I want to be her. I want to do her smoky eyes. And her very full, plump lips, with the high arch, the very prominent cheekbones,”‘ he told the Daily Mail.

Democrats and Republicans alike are asking Gomez for generous helpings of bronzer and ‘attempt to have it all over their face, just like Trump,’ he added. ‘And, of course, everyone is frozen because of Botox.’