Anheuser-Busch CEO Responds to Dylan Mulvaney Backlash With Vapid Statement
It’s a statement bragging about the company and the CEO’s experiences.
Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth responded to the Dylan Mulvaney, a trans activist, backlash with the usual long PR statement that says absolutely nothing:
“As the CEO of a company founded in America’s heartland more than 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew. We’re honored to be part of the fabric of this country. Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people and our independent distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere,” Whitworth said. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
“My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage. I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners. I spend much of my time traveling across America, listening to and learning from our customers, distributors and others. Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation,” he added.
The partnership blossomed as a celebration for Mulvaney making it 365 days as a girl.
Not a woman. A girl.
Bud Light’s partnership with Mulvaney has blown up. Kid Rock shot up a bunch of the beer. Singers John Rich and Travis Tritt denounced the partnership.
Fuzzy wrote about the boycott on April 9.
Then you have Kid Rock and Joe Rogan going off on those who don’t like the partnership.
Maybe it’s because you’re partnering with someone making a mockery of…everything. The dude couldn’t make it as a social media influencer, but then he put on a dress and BAM! Now he’s everywhere. He also cosplays as a six-year-old girl.
I can understand why a company wants to expand its consumer base. Capitalism, baby.
But come on. He’s also annoying.
This isn’t a parody. Dylan Mulvaney is now the face of Bud Light. pic.twitter.com/cpygA74cG5
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 2, 2023
Dylan Mulvaney has become the new brand ambassador for Bud Light. 🍺
The beer brand even made a special edition Dylan Mulvaney Can 🥤celebrating his 365 days of girlhood.
(This is not April Fools, it’s actually real)
🍺🍻🍺😒🍻🍺🍻 #dylanmulvaney #trans #transgender pic.twitter.com/xuu87WxrvZ
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 1, 2023
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Great statement,
BrandonBrendan. You nailed it!Next up: watch a man catch a plummeting safe with a spiderweb!
God they are SO FREAKING BAD AT THIS.
Staying silent, and now releasing a laughable ‘statement’ that states nothing but a bunchy of wishy-washy BS, is pissing off BOTH sides.
The left is angry that you’re not in full-throated defense of TRANS RIGHTS, while your actual customers are angry that you’re supporting this lunacy.
This is literally the worst possible response to this controversy that the company could possibly have done.
“We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere,” Whitworth said. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.””
You support and celebrate and push the worst sort of destructive lunacy human populations have ever exhibited. On top of that, you are promoting the sort of ugliness and revulsion (that Dylan guy is an ugly and most repulsive sort of thing) that would make any normal person puke.
I wish I were a Bud drinker (or any of their brands) so that I could boycott them. Alas, I am not.
Bud Light is anti-woman. Some inclusion!
Where is Spuds MacKenzie when you need him?
I seem to remember women stamping their feet and balling their fists over that ad campaign.
This is not AB’s first excursion into transgender spokesmanship.
Spuds was actually a bitch.
Also, she was cuter than Dylan, and much more genuine.
It is Tranny Fluid !
Budweiser’s “original” sin was its beer looking like urine and tasting like cardboard. I avoided it completely, and rooted for Budweiser otherwise, only because of their Clydsdales. Now, I hope they go out of business. We’ll find people to adopt the Clydsdales.
Put that Budweiser back in the Clydesdale……
They very much meant to divide.
Dylan Mulvaney has 10.8 million TikTok followers and another 1.7 million on Instagram, Maybe that influenced AB, but it’s also a sad commentary on where our country stands today.
The mistake, though, was thinking that him prancing around saying how great Bud Light is would make a single one of his followers switch from wine to beer. Of course it didn’t. It just turned off their actual customer base. Big.
I agree. But why does Dylan Mulvaney have 10.8 million TikTok followers and another 1.7 million followers on Instagram, but LI has absolutely 0 posts on either of these platforms. Are you conceding defeat there?
Not sure. Social media isn’t my area.
Dylan is a whore cashing in for $$$$!
A man pretending to be a woman promotes a beverage pretending to be beer. The lie is the point.
So are they going to rip-off the Dos Equis commericals, and call this guy “The Most Interesting Transvestite In The World”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World#:~:text=The%20Most%20Interesting%20Man%20in%20the%20World%20was%20an%20advertising,became%20a%20popular%20Internet%20meme.
Save your flag waving. That company was sold to foreign buyers in 2008.
Bud Light halts promotion with Dylan Mulvaney, transgender ‘influencer,’ after share value plummets
Cost them $6.6 billion to figure that one out. Shareholders won’t be pleased.
I’ll believe it when I see it, but like Gillette, Nike, Adidas, Target, and a host of other companies, I have no intention of ever letting them see another dime of mine.
Regarding anyone who falls for this and goes back to buying AB products, YOU are the problem.
You have the investing perspective of a child. Also, your million share example above is silly. First, it’s all in one stock which is really dumb. Secondly, it’s still worth 64 million. I retired comfortably on a small fraction of that. If you’d been around in 1987 you would know what plummeting is.
Two weeks ago the stock was 67, now it’s 64.5. That’s not remotely close to plummeting
I know. Math is hard for some people.
2.05 BILLION shares outstanding.
Loss of $2.50 per share.
If you own 1,000 shares, that’s a loss of $2,500. I don’t know many people who are hard working owners who can just ignore a loss of $2,500.
But when your 401k has 1 MILLION shares, the value of that portfolio loses $2.5 million.
But yeah Mr Megabucks, I bet you burn $100 bills to light your Cuban cigars.
Sheesh.
A company can ill afford to lose $5 BILLION share value over the course of a week.
Six months ago the price was 45.
OK. I get it. Dylan Mulvaney makes you hard.
Plummeting
intransitive verb
: to drop sharply and abruptly
“prices plummeted”
Therein lies much of the problem.
How many of US founded companies have sold out to globalists who now run them and could care less about USA?
I.e. Coca-Cola
Whitworth said. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
Anheuser-Busch just wanted to celebrate and promote the idea of guys cutting their penises off. That’s only “dividing a person” and not “dividing people” … technically.
W have become the land of mutants
Shorter Bud: Hey, we’re allowed to do what we want since we regularly work with those dumbass rednecks who drink our beer. You just don’t understand how with it we are. Unlike you.
I’ve never been “with it” at any time in my life. And I am proud to say so.
I hear that. Rob Halford had a great line in a song:
“It’s easy to go along with the crowd
and find later on that your say ain’t allowed
Dylan Mulvaney was no low-level accident: https://youtu.be/1-KZKXX5Hbg
Notice the rainbow colors?
Bud Light makes it easy for Mulvaney to keep his girlish figure.
Doctors now say purging is healthy for you?
Another “I’m sorry you’re offended, not sorry for what I did” apology. Crash and burn, assholes.
The failure to address the problem head on is telling. The problem isn’t Mulvaney or trans ideology. The true problem is the disdain the establishment feel for normal everyday Citizens. They hold us in contempt.
Trans ideology is most certainly a problem, they are mentally I’ll and the inmates are definitely running the asylum
gonzotx,
Trans ideology is A problem but not THE problem. In many ways it is a symptom.
IMO the more overriding concern is that the establishment tends to view normal, everyday Citizens as tax mules fit only to plow fields, fight the wars, build and repair infrastructure but not to have their own voices heard or values represented at the grown up table where policy gets made. No room at the top for deplorables clinging to God and guns.
I told my wife that AB senior management blaming some low-level marketing flunkie for this debacle was worse than the commie VP’s horrible idea in the 1st place. Then, the CEO says “hold my trannie fluid, rubes! Check muh service record!”.
This is New Coke level retardation x 1000.
“We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere,” Whitworth said. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.””
“But by God and all that is Holy, FUCK every one of you because we will ditch the entire list of partners, friends, fans, and our history to promote the denigration of women everywhere by replacing them with a caricature of whet he believes a women should be.”
Amen, Chief. The pandering in his statement is embarrassing.
when you say ” Pud ” you’ve said a lot of things nobody else can say
when you say ” Pudweiser ” you’ve said it all
Sorry, Anheuser-Busch . . . it’s Miller Time!
Are you sure it’s a different company?
I think US Americans in such places like the Iraq therefore don’t have access to maps.
Don’t worry, the MSM is already circling the wagons. I’ve read a couple of stories where Bud is a recommended stock buy, why “marketing pros” think this was a smart move and why there may be a backlash to the backlash growing.
Personally, I don’t drink yellow fizzy water. There are far too many real beers out there. If I’m going for a lawnmower beer PBR, Old Milwaukee, Schaefer, Genesee or something in that vein works fine.
I bet Jim Cramer is pushing AB.
I have fond memories of drinking Genesee cream ale while visiting friends in North Tonawanda/Lockport area of NY.
Bud Light is the new Steel Reserve 211. Only true alcoholics will drink it.
We have gone from Jenny to Dylan. Old guys from the East Coast will remember Jenny.
Sorry, all that brings to my mind was the ad with the donkey who wanted to be a Clydesdale. Much better tiimes.
No, what this issue really brings to my mind today is:
When you say Spud /
Just put your mind on hold /
Do what you’re told /
And open a nice… re.. fresh… ing… /
Spud!
Problem is us and all the other people who still refuse to put their minds on hold.
It used to be Drs wouldn’t abide a patient’s delusions. But I think this guy is more calculating than delusional, but I’m not sure, definitely has what we used to call “crazy eyes”.
Rather than gender dysphoria it might be his pathological need for attention overrides everything.
A great leader knows how to read a room. A good leader knows when to leave a room.
Brendan Whitworth isn’t in the room.
Toxic Femininity.
I recommended the angry drunk speech.
Looks like the CEO has a pretty cushy job – especially in light of the millions a year he gets for sitting in his chair.
Either he wasn’t aware of a major marketing decision (as the company seems to claim, pushing it onto a low-level employee) or he was aware of it and allowed something really stupid.
Then he has to write an apology e-mail (with a smirk on his face about how he’s pulling the wool over consumer’s eyes) that is full of cliches and platitudes, with a touch of words he found in a thesaurus.
And then sit back and not be aware of the next major blunder.
I’d like to be a CEO too, but I have a spine, so I’m not eligible.
CEOs with spine (like at Red Bull) stop the ESG bullshit straight out of the gate.
And it isn’t hard or controversial either. All they have to do is refuse to play culture war games. Just remain neutral and maybe donate to causes that 75% + of folks still support; USO, Funding for disabled or homeless Veterans, Tunnel to Towers, Habitat for Humanity and so on.
The trouble with these boycotts is that they seldom work. Maybe for a couple of weeks, and then people forget about it. Plus, when you do the research, if you support the Bud Light boycott, then you should also support the boycott of Jack Daniels whiskey, Coors beer (which has supported gay rights since the ’80s), Chevy and Ford pickup trucks, I-phones, Google, Firefox, Amazon, everything you currently buy which was made in China, and about another thousand companies because they are all woke and on board in one way or another with gay pride/gay rights. The train left the station a long time ago. I make my purchases based on the quality of the product and the price. Free market capitalism.
For those who find boycotting difficult, do it easy. If a spokesperson or campaign for even one specific product becomes poison, you can attack the wokeism without feeling defeated from the inception as if your efforts will be for nought unless you destroy the company.
So, e.g. boycott Dylan Mulvaney.