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Kid Rock accused of hypocrisy over new stance on Bud Light: ‘That’s why you shouldn’t care what a celeb thinks’

February 24, 2024 | | Print Article

“There’s two kinds of beer in this world, cold and free,” Kid Rock told Joe Rogan on an episode of Rogan’s podcast that aired Thursday. “And I like them both.”

The controversial singer is being slammed as a hypocrite for walking back his infamous Bud Light protest over TikTok transgender personality Dylan Mulvaney.

Kid Rock became the face of a boycott that cost Anheuser-Busch staggering sums of money when he shredded cases of Bud Light with an AR-15-style rifle.

“Grandpa is feeling a little frisky today,” he said in the viral video.

“Let me, uh, say something to all of you and be as clear and concise as possible,” he stated before opening fire. “F*ck Bud Light. F*ck Anheuser-Busch!”

“Bud Light’s consumer base, which consists mostly of conservatives, abandoned the brand and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, for months and cost the brand serious revenue,” Fox News Digital reports. “Last month, it was reported that Bud Light’s year over year revenue was still down nearly 30% almost a year after the partnership started.”

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What a difference some time can make.

In April, when Kid Rock lit up the Bud Light cases, it was “F*ck Bud Light.”

By August, he was seen sipping the woke beverage at a concert.

And, on Thursday, he described his bold stand against the beer as a “tantrum with a machine gun.”

“Wah, wah!” he whined, impersonating himself. “They wanna let guys play in girls’ sports. Wah!”

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Few found it funny.

“Damn,” wrote one user on X. “Joe Rogan and Kid Rock both sold out to Bud Light real quick.”

“That’s why you shouldn’t care what a celeb thinks about anything,” the disappointed user said. “They only have thoughts for money.”

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But Kid Rock didn’t just sell out to Bud Light. He’s now bromancing it with Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. The two were introduced by none other than Donald Trump at a UFC event.

“We’ve become friends,” Kid Rock told Rogan, who agreed that Whitworth is “a good guy.”

“He’s a great guy,” the rocker gushed. “After five minutes of talking to him – I’m with Trump, there in Dana’s [White] green room. I go to Trump, I go, ‘See that dude behind me?’ I go, ‘That’s the CEO of Bud Light – er, of Anheuser-Busch.’ And Trump’s like, ‘You wanna go talk to him?’ which in my mind Trump said, ‘You wanna go f— with him?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes. Absolutely.'”

The singer said he and Whitworth had “a great conversation,” and that’s all it took.

Forget that the Harvard-educated Whitworth is ex-CIA or that he was cool with pushing the myth that Dylan Mulvaney is a “girl,” Whitworth, Kid Rock learned, loves to hunt. At his invitation, the CEO even visited the singer’s Nashville home.

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The revelation failed to change the minds of viewers.

“Joe Rogan Calls People Who Boycott Bud Light ‘Losers’ & Kid Rock Calls Them ‘Trolls’ & Refers To The Ex-CIA President Of Bud Light As A ‘Great F*$kn Guy,'” fumed one user on X. “Sorry, The Boycott Continues.”

“I use [V]eebs,” the user added, referring to a value-based shopping app, “to make it really easy to not give people money who hate me & my values.”

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