Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney Jokes Are Almost as Tired as He Is

Remember 2023? The year when transgender influencer and Broadway actress Dylan Mulvaney held up a single can of Bud Light in a video and the right promptly lost its mind, causing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev to lose billions of dollars in market cap? Donald Trump certainly does, because he’d rather be living in a year when he can get more juice out of flagrant transphobia than this one.On Sunday night, after the president’s dig likening CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to Mulvaney flopped earlier in the weekend at the redone White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump posted an apparently AI-generated photograph of Collins as Mulvaney, wearing a black dress and pearls, surrounded by cans of Bud Light.pic.twitter.com/fNaZNHxmdN— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 26, 2026 The joke somehow landed with even more of a thud online than it did in the ballroom. It marks yet another attempt by Trump to play the greatest hits of his glory years, when he was preparing to ride right-wing anger over Joe Biden’s presidency all the way back into the White House. And, just as Trump talking about stolen elections in 2026 feels inherently embarrassing today, trying to dredge up the Mulvaney/Bud Light fiasco three years later — especially after Bud Light sponsored his UFC cage match fight on the White House lawn — reads like a desperate ploy to get people to care about something they … simply don’t care about. Americans are busy trying to keep food in the fridges of their increasingly unaffordable apartments, all while a president who has trouble staying awake drags us into a deeply unpopular war.Mulvaney and Collins have both since responded publicly to Trump’s “jokes.” On Sunday, Mulvaney — who has gone on to star in Broadway’s SIX: The Musical — posted an Instagram Reel, emphasizing the fact that the president “brought up a video I did over three years ago,” even though she has been keeping a relatively “low profile.” “And yet I am sti