On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump used his social media platform Truth Social to call for the end of the boycott of Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light. There is speculation about why Trump did this, including the fact that a lobbyist for Anheuser-Bush is reportedly holding a fundraiser for him next month. In his post, the president cited a variety of reasons for ending the boycott, but none of them make sense.
He noted that Anheuser-Busch employs many people, including some veterans, but this is hardly unique. Any company of this size will invariably employ veterans and make donations to respectable charitable organizations. He also claimed Anheuser-Busch is not a woke company, even though they exploited a mentally ill transgender activist and celebrated his affinity for women’s clothing with no respect whatsoever for basic decency, the truth, or their customer’s values. Anheuser-Busch never publicly acknowledged what it did wrong. If that’s not a woke company, please tell me what is.
Trump pointed out that there are more egregious examples of corporate wokeness. He’s right, but the fact that there are companies worse than Anheuser-Busch does not negate their sins. If such thinking were taken to its logical conclusion, only one boycott could ever exist, and it would target the most woke company in America while every other woke company got a pass simply because they’re not the absolute worst. This would be a misguided approach, to say the least.
Abandoning the Bud Light boycott would be a catastrophic error in the
