rocker kid He was spotted drinking bud light In concert, months after the jukebox Shoot beer cans with an assault rifle In his anti-transgender controversies against the influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
in photos obtained TMZ On Thursday (August 17), Kid Rock was photographed drinking a can of Bud Lite beer at a Colt Ford concert in Nashville, Tennessee. In April, the rapper posted a video of himself shooting three cans of Anheuser-Busch beer with an AR-15 pistol, declaring: “F*** Bud Light and f*** Anheuser-Busch” while wearing a MAGA hat.
The video was a response to transgender influencers Sponsorship of Dylan Mulvaney with a beer company, who sent her a box of Bud Light with her face on it to promote the March Madness in Bad Light competition. Partnership immediately received backlash Conservative politicians and celebrities, while others have called for a boycott of the beer company.
It didn’t take long for social media users to slam Kid Rock — whose real name is Robert James Ritchie — as a “hypocrite” for drinking Bud Light after he expressed his anger at the brand just four months earlier.
“Who would have thought he was such a colossal hypocrite??” One person tweeted in response to the photos.
Another person wrote: “I was shocked to learn that Kid Rock isn’t actually super principled.”
A third user tweeted: “Kid Rock has woken up,” while another replied: “Shut down the internet. It doesn’t get any funnier than this.”
This isn’t the first time Kid Rock has been called out online since posting his anti-trans video in April. Soon after, an old photo of the “Devil Without a Cause” singer surfaced. Drink Bud Light next to the legendary drag queen, Wanda.
“Kid Rock chilling with legendary drag queen Wanda in 2003, drinking bud lite, when he was vaguely relatable and didn’t need to shoot beer cans to prove he was a whole and absolute person,” one person tweeted at the time.
“There are always receipts! Here we have Kid Rock enjoying a bud light next to a drag queen. It didn’t bother him at the time,” former West Virginia Sen. Richard N. Ojeda added. “Yeah, that’s right… He’s now trying to stay relevant.” , so he spreads fake anger. But if it didn’t bother him then, it doesn’t really bother him now.”
Meanwhile, SiriusXM host Howard Stern has condemned Kid Rock’s rant against transgender peopleHe also explained his bewilderment as to why “someone would care so much” about Mulvaney’s partnership with the Anheuser-Busch brand.
“I wish I could call Kid Rock and have him come to the show and just say to me, ‘Why are you so upset about this? How does it hurt?’ I don’t know why he got so upset,” he said. The Howard Stern Show. “Kid Rock, I know him. He’s got a great life. He went from a kid in Michigan to a rock star! I’m really blown away why someone would care so much that they’d pop a can of Bud Light and say, ‘F*** Anheuser-Busch.'” I I did not get it.”
Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser beer producer, issued a statement at the time in response to boycotting the Conservatives, saying she “never intended to be part of a discussion that would divide people.”
“We have thousands of partners, millions of fans, and a proud history of supporting our communities, the military, first responders, sports fans, and hard-working Americans,” said CEO Brendan Whitworth. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that would divide people. We’re in the business of bringing people together for a beer.”