Country Artist Travis Tritt Boycotts Anheuser-Busch Over Beer Company’s Transgender Ad

Travis Tritt attends "An Opry Salute to Ray Charles" at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee on Oct. 8, 2018. Anna Webber/Getty Images for Black & White TV

Country artist Travis Tritt has announced that he’s dropping all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour amid the beer company’s show of support for transgender ideology.

Though the Grammy-winning musician didn’t mention his reason for boycotting the beer company, he did post on Twitter that Anheuser-Busch was a “great American company that later sold out to the Europeans and became unrecognizable to the American consumer.”

“Such a shame,” he said in the tweet.

Tritt added that other artists are boycotting the company, but they aren’t making public statements for fear of facing ridicule and getting canceled.

“I have no such fear,” Tritt said.

In response to a Twitter user who called for a list of all Anheuser-Busch beers, Tritt posted an image that listed the beers falling under its label, such as Rolling Rock, Budweiser, and Busch.

Tritt’s statement comes after transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney became a brand ambassador for Bud Light and revealed in a video that Anheuser-Busch sent Mulvaney a commemorative Bud Light can to celebrate the social media star’s “365 Days of Girlhood.”

Mulvaney, a 26-year-old biological male, has raked in lucrative sponsorship deals not only from Anheuser-Busch but also from Nike Women, Kate Spade, Tampax, KitchenAid, Maybelline, and several others.

Anheuser-Busch Commemorates Mulvaney’s Milestone

An Anheuser-Busch spokesperson told The Epoch Times that it works with “hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics.”

In response to a question about the company’s reasoning for sending Mulvaney the special can, the spokesperson said that “from time to time we produce unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers, like Dylan Mulvaney. This commemorative can was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone and is not for sale to the general public.”

This personal milestone was Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood,” as documented in Mulvaney’s “Days of Girlhood” TikTok series. Mulvaney’s channel has 10.8 million followers.

In October 2022, Mulvaney interviewed President Joe Biden for left-wing outlet NowThis News. In the interview, Biden called bills throughout the country seeking to criminalize medical procedures to change the sex of minors “immoral.”

‘We Vote With Our Dollars’

Though Tritt made no comment about Mulvaney, multi-genre artist Kid Rock released a video he shared on Twitter in which he stated, “Grandpa’s feeling a little frisky today. Let me say something to all you and be as clear and concise as possible,” before firing a semiautomatic rifle into several cases of Bud Light.

Competitive female skateboarder Taylor Silverman commented on Bud Light’s endorsement in a Fox News interview.

In 2021, Silverman placed second in a skateboarding competition in which a trans-identified male skateboarder won first place, which came with a prize of $5,000.

“It’s disappointing to see someone making a mockery of females be applauded for it, but there is good news, and that is that we vote with our dollar every single day, and when companies make it clear that they don’t share our value of respecting women, the best way to handle that is to no longer financially support them by purchasing their products and turn to alternatives,” Silverman said.