As the Bud Light War enters what feels like its fifth year, Cockburn has further evidence that America’s “wokest” brew has an unlikely ally, giving it beachheads at some of the world’s swankiest properties. The Trump Organization, which boasts properties in several continents, offers Bud Light and/or Bud Heavy at its properties in locations ranging from Chicago to Los Angeles to Scotland.
A Cockburn review on Trump Organization menus show that the beer goes from £6.50 in Scotland, to $7 at his iconic Trump Tower in New York City, to $9 in Chicago, to $10 in Vegas.
Trump’s Bud Light offerings go beyond just his hotels. Want some suds while you’re golfing? Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles, for example, has you covered at only $7 a beer, or a six-pack for $35.
The Trumps’ beer business bottom line may help explain why Donald Trump Jr. staked out the unusual position in the GOP of pushing back against the Dylan Mulvaney-inspired Bud Light boycott… because the company gives more donations to Republicans than to Democrats.
“We looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser-Busch, and guess what? They actually support Republicans,” the Trump scion said on his show. “In woke corporate America, Anheuser-Busch supports Republicans.”
Likewise, Trump Sr. has been silent, by his own loquacious standards. British paper the Independent suggested this may be because he has up to $5 million of Anheuser-Busch InBev stock, which has plummeted since conservatives started boycotting it following its partnership with trans influencer Mulvaney.
Trump, a famous teetotaler, can’t singlehandedly bring Bud Light’s stock prices back, so the next best thing for his bottom line is soft-pedaling any criticism of it, while rivals like Governor Ron DeSantis press onwards with calls for full-scale boycotts.
“Why would you want to drink Bud Light? I mean like 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 are just gonna keep doing it,” DeSantis told Benny Johnson.
The contrast between Trump and the rest of the Republican Party is one that his intra-party allies are already seizing on to Cockburn. One Trump foe even pointed to how Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt recently said that Trump would have made a deal with Disney instead of fighting the company like what DeSantis did as evidence of how woke capitalism may prove to be a bigger weakness than the former president is expecting. From Bud Light to Disney, they sense weakness.
To be clear, Cockburn doesn’t care what you drink, only that you do drink. Cheers!
