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“Only God Knows Why” Kid Rock is still speaking about his feud with Bud Light, yet the inflammatory rap-rocker included even more gas to the fire on Wednesday evening.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on his Fox News program, Rock declared that throughout his look together with Donald Trump at UFC 295 on Saturday evening (Nov. 11), he and the previous head of state challenged Anheuser-Busch’s chief executive officer Brendan Ball Whitworth pertaining to the business’s front runner brand name Bud Light sending out a celebratory beer can to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“So [Trump and I] go over, and we actually had a great conversation [with Whitworth],” Rock stated, prior to passing on a series of anti-trans talking points. “I told him, ‘You signaled to a lot of people like myself … by sending that can to the trans kid, you kind of signaled to us that you support that lifestyle, and more importantly, men being in women’s sports or in my granddaughter’s locker room. Most of us draw a hard line right there.’”
Back in April, Rock made headings when he published a video clip of himself shooting a case of Bud Light after seeing a marketing video clip published by Mulvaney displaying a commemorative can of Bud Light birthing her photo. “F— Bud Light and f— Anheuser-Busch,” he stated in the video clip.
During his meeting with Hannity, Rock stated he never ever contacted followers to “boycott or cancel” the brand name following their collaborate with Mulvaney. “I said eff you. What are you doing, injecting yourself into this conversation, these polarizing social issues?” he asked. “You could be doing so much more positive stuff just making us laugh and drink beer.”
The “Devil Without a Cause” vocalist additionally declared that he can “co-exist in public spaces” with transgender and gay individuals, prior to sharing a message straight to both areas. “Be yourself. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you — that’s how most people are,” he stated. “But as soon as you bring our kids into this, that’s where you’re gonna bring hatred into it. Leave our freaking kids out of it. That’s the bottom line.”
The rap-rocker’s remarks come in the middle of an across the country surge of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, mostly targeting transgender young people’s access to best-practice gender-affirming care, their capacity to participate in school sports lining up with their sex identification, and the open discussion of sexuality and gender in public schools. In tandem with the surge of these costs is a sharp increase in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes, according to the FBI’s just recently launched annual crime report.
Despite Rock’s insurance claim that the LGBTQ+ area is “bringing our kids into this,” research from The Trevor Project reveals that this wave of anti-LGBTQ+ regulations adds to greater prices of suicidality amongst LGBTQ+ young people.
Watch Kid Rock’s meeting with Sean Hannity listed below:
