Dylan Mulvaney has hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump after he mocked the trans advocate, actress and singer in his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech on Friday.
“My name is Dylan Mulvaney and the president said my name four times in his speech on Friday night,” she began a TikTok video response posted on Sunday evening.
At Friday’s rescheduled dinner, which had been postponed after a gunman opened fire at the original event in April, Trump mentioned Mulvaney after CNN’s Kaitlan Collins accepted an award for her covering the White House. Trump compared the two women and brought up the 2023 Bud Light controversy, where customers boycotted the beer brand after Mulvaney posted a social media ad featuring her face on a can.
“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,” Trump said in his speech. “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion 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 any time soon.”
In her response, Mulvaney — who most recently starred in the Broadway musical “Six” — first congratulated Collins, saying: “I’m incredibly honored to be compared to her in any way and I hope that she continues doing all the great work.” She then marveled at the fact that she’s “been kind of flying under the radar” since the Bud Light video, but is “still his topic of conversation all these years later.”
