Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has responded to President Donald Trump mocking his failed Bud Light partnership, while taking a jab at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for looking like the male activist.
Trump’s comments were made during remarks at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Friday night.
The president brought up Collins after she received an award for her coverage of the administration.
“I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake — she shouldn’t get the award; it was a fake,” Trump began.
“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made, by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan any time soon.”
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Trump: Kaitlan Collins is a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. Do you ever smile? I thought she had really made it big with a major new sponsorship but then I informed her that it was not her on the Bud Light can. It was Dylan Mulvaney pic.twitter.com/Eqfu4gs7kA
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Trump later doubled down by posting an AI-generated image on Truth Social that superimposed Collins’ face onto Mulvaney’s body from the 2023 Bud Light advertisement.
The Anheuser-Busch brand had partnered with Mulvaney for an Instagram and TikTok campaign featuring a personalized can with his face.
The promotion triggered a massive boycott from conservatives, leading to sharp declines in sales and significant market value losses for the company.
Mulvaney responded on Sunday with a nearly four-minute video posted to Instagram.
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“Now, the president also brought up a video I did over three years ago, and mind you, I’ve been kind of flying under the radar, keeping up a pretty low profile, just like doing my little musicals, singing, dancing. And yet, I am still his topic of conversation all these years later,” Mulvaney said.
“And it seems to me that I might be like the one that got away for these men. Like, I am permanently burned into their retinas. I am microchipped into their minds.”
Mulvaney congratulated Collins on the award, calling the comparison an honor, and then reframed the mockery as a positive.
“In fact, maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all, because it puts me in the company of some of like the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today.”
He concluded, “And lastly, to the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew.”
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