PETA urges Trump to use shareholder status at Anheuser-Busch to help end ‘Clydesdale mutilations’
Julia Johnson
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling on former President Donald Trump to assist in urging Anheuser-Busch to stop tail amputations of its famous Clydesdale horses — citing the revelation that Trump owns stock in the parent company of Bud Light.
According to a recent financial disclosure filed with the Federal Election Commission, Trump owns between $1-$5 million in Anheuser-Busch InBev stock.
Trump’s 2024 campaign did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
“Budweiser presents the iconic Clydesdales as symbols of traditional American values, but harming horses is the antithesis of what Americans hold dear. Will you, as a shareholder in the company, speak with AB InBev executives and urge them to discontinue tailbone severing?” PETA asked the former president in a letter sent on Tuesday.
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Trump, despite his status as a shareholder at Anheuser-Busch, recently waded into the company’s controversy involving transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“It’s time to beat the Radical Left at their own game. Money does talk — Anheuser-Busch now understands that,” he said in a Truth Social post advertising The Great Patriot BUY-Cott Book by Wayne Allyn Root and Nicky Billou.
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The former president and current 2024 candidate’s response came a little over a month after the initial controversy began.
In an April 1 Instagram post, Mulvaney was revealed to be a partner of Bud Light. The transgender influencer revealed in a subsequent post to Mulvaney’s Instagram story that the company had sent a custom can of beer. The can had an image of Mulvaney’s face on it, and Bud Light further congratulated the influencer on marking a year as a transgender woman.
Mulvaney is known on TikTok for tracking each day of “girlhood.” The influencer marked one year in March.
The company has since faced a cultural and financial backlash. Politicians and celebrities alike began calling out Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch.
It’s unclear whether Trump wields the necessary influence to convince Anheuser-Busch to make a decision such as ending tail amputations.
However, in 2016, when Budweiser renamed itself “America” for the summer, Trump suggested he may have been responsible.
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In a phone interview on Fox and Friends around that time, Trump was asked if he had something to do with the temporary name change by cohost Steve Doocy.
“I think so. They’re so impressed with what our country will become, they decide to do this before the fact,” he said.