Trump Urged Conservatives To Give Bud Light Another Chance, But If They Do Their Money Would Go to Bill Gates: Here’s How

Donald Trump called for a cease-fire in the culture war over Bud Light’s transgender fiasco – a move that provoked critics to claim he was getting “bought out” by mega-brewer Anheuser-Busch.

The former president took to his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday and declared that Anheuser-Busch was “not a woke company” and that it had already paid a “very big price” for Bud Light’s ad campaign featuring transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Trump added that it was time to move on from outrage over the ads, which he called “a mistake of epic proportions.”

The former president noted that Anheuser-Busch “spends $700 million a year with our great farmers” and employs 65,000 Americans.

Trump urged his followers to give Bud Light a “second chance” and to shun other companies that “are looking to destroy America!”

Trump’s post on Truth Social came just weeks before a top GOP lobbyist for Anheuser-Busch was scheduled to host a fundraiser for the former president’s re-election campaign, according to Politico.

Trump need the funds and he is desperate to get them in order to defeat Joe Biden which is normal!

Noah Rothman, a writer for National Review, criticized Trump for his embrace of Anheuser-Busch — accusing the 45th president of getting “bought out of the culture wars.”

Rothman noted that both Trump and Anheuser-Busch have a vested financial interest in a truce since the boycott of Bud Light put a dent in the company’s earnings while the Republican National Committee is “struggling financially.”

“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.”

Rothman also took Trump to task for abandoning the “effective and organic effort by cultural conservatives to convince corporate America that social-justice activism doesn’t pay.”

“Not only does it pay, it pays off all the right people,” Rothman wrote.

The company itself need all the help that can get, well, Bill Gates is looking to help — or to take advantage of — the situation A-B is in.

Gates, or more correctly, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, bought 1.7 million shares of A-B stock, according to CNN.

That’s a cool $95 million investment, made last quarter about the time Anheuser-Busch reported $395 million in lost revenues directly pegged to backlash against tying Bud Light marketing to Mulvaney.

So far, the Gates Foundation’s investment is not paying off: A-B stock dropped by close to 2 percent since the purchase, and it’s down 7 percent for the year, CNN said.

This, marketing class, is another example of go woke, go broke.

Yet, if somehow A-B manages to turn the thing around and regain sales, if you buy a Bud Light, you’re giving money to Bill.

Okay — maybe not to Bill, but at least to his foundation. And who wants to fund that crazy outfit?

Sorry, Mr. President, but a brand name equals a promise and a relationship with customers. People don’t forget serious deviation from that promise.

And a second chance? They never really apologized for messing up on this.

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