Brendan Whitworth faces intense scrutiny for defending a Bud Light gift to Dylan Mulvaney as a promotional gesture rather than a paid partnership, alienating conservative customers who value traditional imagery. The host critiques Whitworth's perceived liberal alignment since 1998, mocking his appearance and accusing him of prioritizing LGBTQ+ initiatives over rural values while using derogatory language regarding gender ideology. Ultimately, the segment argues that this controversy exposes a deep cultural fracture where corporate support for progressive causes directly threatens the brand's connection to its core demographic. [Automatically generated summary]
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Not A Conservative Issue00:14:19
Yeah.
Got a new show for y'all.
Got a damn good show.
All right, so the CEO of Anheuser.
Bush.
Yeah, y'all just should just stop talking about it.
Maybe people forget.
Yeah, y'all should do what's that one tar company?
Firestone.
Remember, they was on Fort Explorer.
They were just blowing up, killing people.
Stop talking about it.
People forget.
Really, they will.
Well, I don't know if they're going to forget about that trans on that can.
I think y'all pretty much done.
Yeah, yeah.
But anyway, he went on.
You got to be stupid to send Bud Light.
I think of like rural customers, you know.
Country.
I think good old old Americans.
I think of white people.
White, southern, conservative, rebel flag waving.
That's what I think of because I grew up in the South and that's all I saw was rubber flags and Bud Light.
Right?
Red and slit smoke.
When I think of Slit Small Liquor, I think a nigga, right?
And then when I think of Paps Blue Ribbon Bill, same image.
You know, same customer.
Colt 45, nigga.
Right?
Slits?
Negro.
Paps?
Bud Light?
White redneck.
Daddy liked Paps.
Daddy, you damn lie.
Daddy drunk that Colt 45.
Daddy drunk a lot of Paps Blue Ribbon.
You remember them damn red, white, and blue cans at the house?
Oh, he'll finish the can.
And he smashed it.
Just throw it in the corner.
And after he finished drinking, he opened a can of pork and beans.
Then he'd be walking to the bathroom.
You can hear him kicking the cans all over the place.
Yeah, daddy was a black redneck.
But anyway, so the Anheuser-Busch CEO went on, what is that, ABC?
I think it's ABC.
CBS.
Good morning, America.
One of the days.
GMA.
He looks liberal as hell, don't he?
He looks kind of liberal.
Yeah, let's start the interview.
He looks lib.
Anheuser-Busch, U.S. CEO.
That's Brendan Wentworth.
We're happy to see you.
These are the beers you don't buy.
Joins us at the table.
Don't buy these beers.
Go back.
He looks gay, too.
He looks liberal, right?
He looks liberal gay to me.
Go back a little bit.
Hey, everybody.
Hey, thanks, GMA.
You see these beers?
Don't buy.
That's all Anheuser-Busch, all that's training piss.
Do not buy.
Thank you, GMA, for showing this.
These are the beers you do not buy.
They ain't buying none of that.
Goose Island.
Look at that training piss foaming up.
All right, let's go, man.
It's Brendan Wentworth, we're happy to say, joins us at the table live and in color for an extra interview.
Number one, we're glad to have you here.
Many people in your position, Mr. Wentworth, would be running for the Hills at this point.
Because since April, you all have faced a lot of incoming.
How and why did it go so off the rails?
Because that certainly wasn't your intention when you did one can to one person.
It's been a challenging few weeks.
And I think the conversation surrounding Bud Light has moved away from beer.
And that conversation has become divisive.
And Bud Light really doesn't belong there.
Bud Light should be all about bringing people together.
And there's an impact on the business.
And I think that's publicly covered on Bud Light specifically.
Yeah, so what was your intention?
Take us to the beginning.
What was your intention?
What were you all trying to do here?
And you've done this before, these promotional campaigns.
Yeah, it was, just to be clear, it was a gift.
And it was one can.
Pause it.
Come on now.
Come on.
A gift.
You just packed, you took one can and put it in a box and melted to that transgender.
One can.
No money was paid.
Chad, no.
If you're going to send your products, you're going to send them a 12-pack at least.
You sent one can?
That's a lot.
And it wasn't a gift.
This was an ad.
This was a promotion.
Yeah.
One can.
Yeah.
What I find so hard to believe is you're like promoting your brand with an influencer whose primary audience is below the drinking age.
Yeah.
And not only that, the influencer is a radical person who pushes gender ideology on kids.
Yeah.
Pushes the idea that men can be women.
Yeah.
A person who minimizes what a woman is.
That's how I know you're liberal.
If you was conservative, you'd have never sent this beer out.
If you was conservative, you would have never went political.
You just stick to your brand about making money and putting out beer and putting out things that customers like.
No, you wanted to influence somebody with your politics.
That's what you went wrong at.
If you was really conservative, your beard would be like all that clean, prissy look you got going.
You take off that mascara, too.
You got to go with this just rugged look like I got.
You come out there with that beard, cowboy boots, rugged look like a wife beater with a couple stains on it.
I can say all that.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Got your nice little suit on.
It's got a wrinkle in it.
With some white sneakers.
You look liberal as hell.
Let's keep going.
Whitworth.
Cam.
But for us, you know, as we look to kind of the future and we look to moving forward, we have to understand the impact that it's had.
And like I said, you know, that impact has taken place.
But it's the impact on our employees, the impact on our consumers, and as well, the impact on our partners.
And I think one thing that I'd love to make extremely clear is that impact is my responsibility.
Everything we do here, I'm accountable for.
Given the moment we're in, this moment in America with trans issues at the top of a Republican social or conservative political agenda, knowing what you know now, if you could go back, would you send this can to this one person again?
There's a big social conversation taking place right now, and big brands are right in the middle of it.
And it's not just our industry or Bud Light.
It's happening in retail.
It's happening in fast food.
And so for us, what we need to understand is deeply understand and appreciate is the consumer and what they want, what they care about, and what they expect from big brands.
You blew it again.
Yeah.
If I'm the CEO of Anheuser-Bush, I'm like, hell no, he's sending that damn can in that train.
That's what you should have said.
Sales would have went through the roof.
I think conservatives would have ran to the stores and bought all that stuff.
I think conservative being in store fighting over that bill.
Yeah.
Yeah, we got him.
We got him right where we want him.
And you know what?
Y'all misrepresent things and you do it intentionally because you're just disingenuous.
This is not a Republican or conservative issue.
This is a family issue.
Just because I'm conservative, you mean to tell me liberal parents is okay with this?
Progressive, maybe progressive parents, but the true liberal, the true moderate, a person that's sane and rational, it's not okay with this.
You pushing beer alcohol on unaged kids and a radical French ideology?
What crack are you smoking?
Like the guy that framed that question.
You can already tell he's...
Yeah, all of them liberals.
They misrepresent everything.
That's not a conservative Republican issue.
That's a family issue.
It's like it's a moral issue because a lot of people don't see the dystopian future for women in a society where the science of biological sex is totally ignored for the sole benefit of a dude with nuts.
Just so he can affirm who he is.
The only way this guy like Dylan Mulvaney can affirm who he is is minimizing what women are.
Yeah.
And you sent a can to a trans.
Yeah.
One can.
No, you send like a 12 can.
You on that line.
Yeah.
Now you lying now.
You lying.
You paid that trans money.
That trans is a huge influencer.
She doesn't, I mean, he doesn't do anything without money.
You pay the money.
I know you did.
Oh, let's keep this keep it rolling.
You're getting it from all sides because I asked you, would you do it again?
And people on the trans right side of things, supporting that community, want you to say yes, of course.
We want that fortitude.
And people on the right would criticize you for saying yes.
So where are you on the issue?
I mean, was this a mistake?
You know, Bud Light has supported LGBTQ since 1998.
So that's 25 years.
And as I said from the beginning, we'll continue to support the community.
Hell yeah, it was a mistake.
We've supported for decades.
But as we move forward, we want to focus on what we do best, which is brewing great beer for everyone, listening to our consumers, being humble in listening to them, making sure that we do right by our employees.
Take care of support.
Look, you should have came out there waving a rubber flag, half drunk.
You should have had the Betsy Ross flag on one side and the rubber flag on the other side.
No, he should have came out with the Betsy Ross and the American flag.
Oh, man, if he really wanted to get a response, you should have came up with that rubber flag.
Hey, but look, this is the thing.
When you went, when you took, when you chose this individual to promote your beer, you actually picked a side and you knew it.
Yeah.
Those are your, those are your, that's how you agree with that gender ideology crap.
That's why you did it.
Yeah.
You're a fall of it.
Yeah.
I mean, I. You should have came out.
Hell no, I'd have done it again.
That's a huge mistake.
I'm not even with these trans.
And you know what?
Let me say this.
Why did you even get involved with this?
You just, you're in the business of selling beer.
You never, your company never came out and said, look, you transgendals, don't you damn near buy my damn beer?
Yeah.
Y'all never said anything like that.
Yeah, y'all always supported LGBTQ.
Yeah, you've always, when I think of brands, nobody comes out and say, hey, if you're trans or you this or you that, don't buy my brand.
You never came out and did that.
If you did that, yeah, I would understand you come out and saying something, you know, we don't, that was wrong thing to say, but why do you pick a side?
You actually picked a side when you did what you did.
Yeah, you picked one side over the other.
Now you coming out with these wholesome patriotic ads and everybody know you full of crap.
I seen an ad y'all came out with the not with a rough reference to 9-11.
I was like, oh, y'all, yo, y'all, y'all don't know when to stop.
You can't make up for it.
That was your first choice, the trans on the can.
You had a chance to fix it.
One can.
You had to come off like a bigot, but you're not really a bigot.
You should have just came out and said, look, it was wrong to do what I did.
I picked sides.
This bread is not just for trans.
It's not for white people.
It's for everybody.
It's for Americans.
That's what you should have said.
How are you the CEO and my dumbass black ass no better than you?
Yeah.
You know why?
Because you got that white privilege.
Hey, we're not.
I was joking.
You need to catch that joke?
Yeah, I caught it, man.
It's pretty funny.
It's all right.
You do better, though.
Hey, like a what?
Say it.
You think you better than me?
Don't think I'm better than you.
I'm not being condescending or anything.
Yeah, look, look here.
Look here, man.
Hey, man, you need to calm down, man.
You need to go and say it.
Man, I got that damn Biden shit again.
Let's go back to the video.
I totally forgot what was going to say.
Biden caught up to me.
Wait, man, why is it going to say?
Partners and ultimately make an impact in the communities that we serve.
So, you did point out that Anheuser-Busch has in the past supported the queer community.
In fact, you had these cans in 2019 that were rainbow bottles that he sold in stores all across the country.
But the political arm of Anheuser-Busch is donated to anti-LGBTQ politicians.
So, where do you stand?
What does the company stand?
Hey, he said they donated to anti-trans communities.
There's no anti-trans communities that don't even exist.
Yeah.
Conservatives, not anti-wit.
We're just anti-that radical gig.
Y'all saying men can be women.
That's what we anti.
And not only that, you're pushing, yeah, and you're pushing on kids.
We're not anti-trans.
If you don't walk around looking like a drag queen, we cool with it.
We don't even care.
Trust me, we don't even care.
We just talk about you behind your back, but we don't answer.
We're gonna laugh at you and hey, look at the man.
He thinks he's a woman.
He thinks he's a woman with a beard with a dress on.
Yeah, I mean, but we're not, no Republicans are fighting for like introducing legislation to ban trans people.
That gay, bold, homosexual intentionally misrepresent the argument.
Intentionally.
He did that intention.
We're not anti-anything.
Just because we don't believe what you're radical fringe ideology, that doesn't make us anti-anything.
It's just our opinions.
Yeah.
Are y'all anti-Christian?
Well, yeah, you are.
Well, y'all gonna burn it here.
Hey, we're not anti-trans.
It's just like, don't push it on the kids.
We're cool.
Yeah, I'm not anti-gay or anything, man.
You throwing anti-trans.
Ain't nobody anti-trans.
Trying to look all masculine with that shaved head.
That dude ain't got a hair on his body.
I think he's hairless.
Yeah, go to him.
Probably shaves everything, huh?
That dude is hairless.
That dude looks like, what's that?
That stuff you put on your beard and they just fall out?
What's it called?
Magic shave?
Yeah.
I can't use that stuff.
It burns my face up.
Yeah, anti-trans.
Ain't nobody anti-trans.
Misrepresenting the argument.
Yeah.
Just keep rolling.
Putting words in her mouth.
Oh, look at that.
Look at that.
Keep it up, Earl.
What happened?
What happened, man?
I want to send him in that charl.
Look how high he sent up.
That dude is about five foot six.
He got them propped up in that chair to make him look bigger.
Yeah.
Misrepresenting The Argument00:02:55
You see that?
Look at the gay guy.
He's got purple socks on.
He's doing way too much.
All you have to do is put on, well, you're wearing a purple shirt and a purple tie.
Well, ain't nobody going to see the socks.
What's some nice shoes, though?
You got some good taste now.
You got to give him that.
Just them wingtips.
Should have wore some rainbow socks.
Man, that dude ain't gay.
Has some short, tight shorts on.
He ain't gay, Kevin.
Yes, he is.
No, he's not.
Oh, man.
That dude is a homosexual.
You can't even see that.
He's talking like this.
He ain't gay, man.
Dude, he just effeminate.
What do you call it?
Well, he might be effeminate, but I think he's homosexual.
I put money.
Well, he's been on.
I bet y'all look him up.
I bet you he's married to a man.
How much you want to bet?
He's just been emasculated by the liberals.
No, he's a homosexual.
He's been emasculated.
Look him up.
I bet you he's a homosexual.
I bet you're married to a white dude, too.
You know how these black liberals are.
They always marry white people.
Forget about that race.
Man, let's get to the interview.
That was a joke.
You didn't catch it.
You can do better, though.
Yeah?
Yeah, I got your back.
Let's keep going.
You know, we support politicians that support our business.
And when we say that, we talk about things like things that work for the industry, allow us to grow the business, allow us to employ more people, and really help drive the economy.
You said at one point I heard you say we're listening, we hear you.
What did you hear, and how is it affecting your employees?
I'm curious about how they're feeling and how they're dealing with all of that.
Our employees, we have 65,000 if you look at the 42,000 Anheuser-Bush employees and you look at the 47,000 Anhez-Bush Sailor employees, and they're full of pride and they're full of commitment.
And so it's really a privilege and it's humbling to have the opportunity to lead the organization.
When you say listening, you know, I've been out to many of the impacted markets.
My team has been out to many of the impacted markets.
And over the last month, we've talked to over 100,000 consumers and their feedback is very clear.
What is it?
The feedback is to reinforce what Red Light has always meant to them, which is good times, goodwill, and easy enjoyment.
And we have that all packed inside of our summer campaign that we launched last week.
We're in the middle of the day.
It's not here, but we're in the middle of our NFL campaign.
They'll be out in a few weeks.
It's right there.
And I think the fact remains that millions and millions of people.
You're going out of business, fool.
That was a damn good show.
You should have stayed home.
That interview did not help you.
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