Bud Light, which had been silent on Twitter for nearly two weeks before Friday, has resumed its tweeting and is being seriously rated.
Anheuser-Busch’s first Twitter since April 1 was sent after Anheuser-Busch’s CEO Brendan Whitworth released a bland statement Friday, in an apparent effort to calm the negative sentiments that had erupted following the company’s decision to hire a man who identified as a woman transgender to promote the beverage.
Bud Light tweeted a picture of a beer can with the message “TGIF?”
u201cTGIF?u201d— Bud Light (@Bud Light)
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The post generated thousands of responses.
Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire said: “You should probably stop posting for a little while or even forever.” tweeted.
“Stop promoting transgender ideology,” tweeted Stephen Miller served as a senior adviser to Donald Trump.
“I don’t drink transbeer,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales tweeted.
@budlight I donu2019t consume transbeer.— Bud Light (@Bud Light)
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On Instagram, the same post was met with similar derisive remarks.
“Woke light. “No thank you,” one person wrote.
“I don’t usually drink beer, but when I do …. IT WON’T BE BUDLIGHT…
