During a Thursday Triggered with Donald Trump Jr podcast, the 45th president’s son urged conservatives to give up their two-week-long and counting boycott of Anheuser-Busch products.
The boycott was spurred by the company’s Bud Light brand sending a commemorative beer can to far-left TikTok phenomenon and transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney on his “365 days of girlhood” “transition” journey.
Don Jr. said conservatives had “the tendency of — shooting first and aiming second.”
He said, “We looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser-Busch. And guess what? They actually support Republicans.”
“Last cycle, their employees and their PAC gave about 60% to Republicans and 40% to Democrats. That’s literally almost unheard of in corporate America, where it’s really easy to go woke, where they do so constantly, where there’s a consequence to actually being a conservative. So 60 / 40 to the conservative side is kind of a big deal,” he said.
Don Jr. continued, “On the lobbying front, we looked into the bills that Anheuser-Busch was working on. You know what they’re focused on, guys? They’ve focused on taxes and trade things that actually impact their business. They haven’t done any lobbying for like the random pet issues of the day and the nonsense and the BLM crap — I didn’t find that — they focused on the things that affect their job.”
“So here’s the deal, Anheuser-Busch, totally s**t the bed with this Dylan Mulvaney thing. I’m not, though, for destroying an American and iconic company for something like this,” he said.
“But like when I actually look into it, I’m not gonna blame the whole company for the inaction or the stupidity of someone in a marketing campaign that got woke as hell. The company itself doesn’t participate in the same leftist nonsense as the other big conglomerates,” he added.
“I think sometimes we do have the tendency of like shooting first and aiming second, not looking into the details… I get that guys. It’s easy. I’ve complained about that on this show before, which is when we do the, ‘Hey, we got you’ and you know — Wuhan lab leak theory, COVID vaccines, whatever, it’s like two years later we’re proven, right? And we dunk on them online, but they still won. This is like the opposite of that. This is one like we’re dunking on them now, but when you actually look into it, they’d be one of the more conservative-leaning companies in America…. So they’ve been put on notice. I’m leaving them alone. I think you should probably do the same — if they do it again — they’ve been warned,” he concluded.
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