Dylan Mulvaney is clapping back against Donald Trump’s bizarre rant against CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at the recent WHCA Dinner.
Just in case you missed it, the President attempted to roast Collins on Friday, saying, “She shouldn’t get the award, it was a fake. But I don’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was a fake, there’s no question about it.” And it all went downhill from there.
Trump went on, comparing Collins to trans actress Dylan Mulvaney, “I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship. But then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”
The Bud Light comment references a three-year-old campaign in which Mulvaney briefly collaborated with the beer company. Trump supporter Kid Rockfamously led a boycott against Bud Light, igniting a firestorm of controversy that ultimately cost Anheuser-Busch significantly.
The President kept his roast going, continuing to take digs at Mulvaney, “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 million in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan anytime soon.”
But wait, it didn’t end there. On Sunday, Trump posted a doctored AI photo of Collins as Mulvaney in a faux Bud Light ad on Truth Social. The same day, Mulvaney decided to clap back against the President, sharing a social media post of her own.
“Is this a good time? Well, it’s definitely an interesting time. Because my name is Dylan Mulvaney and the President of the United States said my name in his speech four times on Friday night. I couldn’t respond right away because yesterday I had tickets to see Meg Stalter in Oh Mary!, but now I think I’d like to say a little something.”
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She continued, “Firstly, I would like to congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on her award, and tell her that I’m incredibly honored to be compared to her in any way, and I hope that she keeps doing the great work. Now, the President also brought up a video I did over three years ago, and mind you, I’ve been kind of flying under the radar. Keeping up a pretty low profile. Just like doing my little musicals, singing, dancing, and yet I am still his topic of conversation all these years later.”
Mulvaney added, “And it seems to me that I might be like the one that got away for these men. Like I’m permanently burned into their retinas; I am microchipped into their minds. And when I first heard that the President put me on his diss track, I was like, ‘Well, that’s not good.’”
The actress’s critique of Trump continued, “So maybe I shouldn’t want to be professionally supported by an administration that doesn’t personally support me or so many others in this country. …Maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all, because it puts me in the company of some of the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today.”
“But I do still wonder like why is it so important to them that I don’t find success? Like what is it that I have that they don’t? Oh my god…freedom! I am free in a way they will never have the privilege to experience. And they want to use their power to take away my freedom.”
The actress also “sounded the alarm” against Trump and the administration’s anti-trans agenda, saying, “Ladies, when they tell you you look like a trans woman, wear it like a medal. Men, when they tell you that being attracted to a trans woman makes you gay, I want you to Hilary Duff PSA their a** so hard that they don’t even know what just happened. To the President, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew, and to quote my favorite recording artist Shea Diamond, ‘I am America.’”