Team MAGA hurls vicious slurs at Caitlin Jenner for backing Trump’s call to end Bud Light boycott

Donald Trump and Caitlyn Jenner are facing right-wing backlash after calling for an end to the Bud Light boycott.

Earlier this week, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, telling his followers to give Bud Light parent corporation Anheuser-Busch a break.

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“The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid,” Trump wrote, referring to the boycott launched last spring after the beer brand partnered with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a one-off sponsored post on her TikTok.

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“But Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company,” Trump’s Tuesday post continued. “Anheuser-Busch is a Great American Brand that perhaps deserves a Second Chance? What do you think? Perhaps, instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to DESTROY AMERICA!”

As Politico noted, the former president’s post came the same day that Jeff Miller, a top Republican lobbyist for Anheuser-Busch, announced that he would be hosting a March 6 fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Last April, The Independent also reported that Trump, who had been uncharacteristically silent about the Mulvaney controversy, owned between $1–$5 million in Anheuser-Busch stock.

On Tuesday, former Olympian and Fox News contributor Jenner — who, as The Daily Beast notes, has been notably absent from the conservative cable network since August — chimed in to back Trump’s call for an end to the boycott.

“As someone that worked for this incredible American company, and got to know them very well, I raced for @AnheuserBusch in the 80’s [sic] I agree with @realDonaldTrump,” Jenner wrote in an X post.

Look at what the company does for so many Americans and their track record over the years. They made a huge mistake and have paid a large price. I think it is time to move forward – I am saying we should focus on big picture…agreeing with 45!

— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) February 7, 2024

“Look at what the company does for so many Americans and their track record over the years. They made a huge mistake and have paid a large price,” she added. “I think it is time to move forward – I am saying we should focus on big picture…agreeing with 45!”

Despite generally being in lockstep with Trump, right-wing talking heads apparently aren’t ready to let their beef with Bud Light go yet. Noting the former president’s apparent financial interest in Anheuser-Busch as well as the fact that a significant portion of Trump’s campaign funds have gone toward his ongoing legal battles, National Review writer Noah Rothman accused Trump of being “bought out of the culture wars.”

“Trump and Anheuser-Busch need one another,” Rothman wrote. “Their mutual admiration is set to cool the tensions between Bud Light and the customers the brand communicated in no uncertain terms it did not want. Everyone wins — everyone, that is, save those who supported the effective and organic effort by cultural conservatives to convince corporate America that social-justice activism doesn’t pay.”

On Wednesday’s edition of his Daily Wire show, far-right commentator and professional transphobe Matt Walsh blasted Trump for not giving “any strategic argument for ending” the boycott. “His argument is just, ‘Ehh, they’ve had enough. Let’s be nice to ‘em,’” Walsh said, adding that anti-trans conservatives want an “explicit concession” from Anheuser-Busch. “They have not apologized,” Walsh said.

In fact, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth released a statement last April that basically amounted to an apology for the Mulvaney partnership, saying that the company “never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people.” The company has been widely criticized by members of the LGBTQ+ community and progressive allies for its response to the anti-trans backlash and for its lack of support for Mulvaney, who has been the subject of vicious anti-trans attacks.

Since backing Trump’s call for an end to the boycott, Jenner has also faced a barrage of transphobia.

“Bud Light: The beer endorsed by Liberal AND Conservative dudes who think they’re chicks,” Townhall writer John Hasson posted on X in response.

“[Caitlyn] Jenner and Donald Trump want to give up on the one conservative boycott that has made a substantial difference in my lifetime,” Frontline Policy Action president Cole Muzio wrote in a post in which he deadnamed Jenner.

As The Daily Beast notes, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) former chief of staff Patrick Parsons, along with Lizzie Marbach, who was fired from anti-abortion organization Ohio Right to Life last summer for inflammatory social media posts, also posted truly vile anti-trans messages in response to Jenner.