DeSantis calls out Anheuser-Busch: ‘Pushback is in order’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLV) – Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in on Anheuser-Busch’s partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, saying “pushback is in order across the board.”
“Why would you want to drink Bud Light?” DeSantis pondered to Benny Johnson. “Honestly, that’s like them rubbing our faces in it and it’s like, these companies that do this, if they never have any response, they’re just going to keep doing it.”
“If you as a consumer are like […] ‘Yeah, they’re doing that, but I’m just gonna keep drinking it anyways.’ Well, then, they’re just gonna keep doing it!”
The governor called on consumers to “make [their] voices heard.”
“If you don’t have conservative beer drinkers, you’re going to feel that.”
DeSantis said conservatives should stop dismissing corporate efforts like Anheuser-Busch’s that go against their values as “one off[s].”
“Corporate America is trying to change our country, trying to change policy, trying to change culture […] Pushback is in order across the board, including with Bud Light,” he said.
Johnson took DeSantis into a convenience store, where the governor noted he and his wife, Casey, prefer Guinness.
“Years ago we, we went to Dublin, we went to some other places, and we’ve always been a fan ever since.”
Amid blowback from consumers, the CEO of the company said partnering with Mulvaney was not meant to cause divide.
