The White House took aim at transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Monday, trolling The View for having her as a guest from its “War Room” account on X.
In a repost of the View’s announcement that Mulvaney would be making an appearance, the account asked, “Was nobody else available?” Mulvaney, for her part, didn’t address the comment during her discussions on the show to promote her new memoir Paper Doll.
Mulvaney kept her message on the show strictly positive. “It’s interesting because people often put me as an activist, when I’m really just a musical theater girl who now wrote a book,” she remarked.
“I had no idea that this was going to be the administration” when the book was released, she continued, sharing that she’d begun writing her memoir before Donald Trump took office in November. “What we’re living through is something that in the history books will be written about,” she continued, in reply to co-host Sunny Hostin’s comment about “anti-trans rhetoric coming from some conservative lawmakers.”
The internet MAGA-verse was anything but positive, however. Goldberg explained her opinion Monday that conservatives arguing against trans women in women’s sports “don’t know anything about our bodies,” which prompted a repost of her remarks by the right-wing “watchdog” group Media Research Center.
“Whoopi tells Dylan Mulvaney that those opposed to men in women’s sports don’t know anything about women’s bodies,” the account posted, “She’s too stupid to understand that men and women are biologically built differently.”
Trump supporters also gathered in the comments of the White House post to call Mulvaney’s appearance a “new low” for the View.
Mulvaney rose to the spotlight when her social media posts documenting her transition during the early days of COVID became a viral sensation. She became a magnet for various brand deals, which led to her endorsement of Bud Light in 2023. “Beer-gate,” as she called it on The View Monday, refers to the backlash she and the beer company received over their brief partnership.
Conservatives called for a nationwide boycott of all Budweiser brands, leading to what eventually became the largest boycott in U.S. history—after Mulvaney posted a video promoting the beer with a specialty can that featured her face. “I realized I had become the poster child for this thing, when trans-ness is just a small part of me,” she recalled Monday.
Lawmakers and conservative online personalities incited outrage over the video ad—Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting Bud Light cans with an assault rifle at the height of the furor—to the point that the uproar culminated in bomb threats to the company’s factories and plummeted its sales. Amid the fall out, Mulvaney said the company offered her no support as she became a target for hate.
Trump eventually told his supporters last February that Anheuser-Busch was “not a woke company” and that it “deserves a second chance,” before calling for an end to the boycott. He owned as much as $5 million dollars in its stock at the time.
The White House showed little remorse for the negativity aimed at Mulvaney when it launched an unprovoked attack on her Monday. Though Mulvaney didn’t address the Trump account’s comment directly, she offered several counters to haters during her appearance.
“The parts of us that they are attacking are the best parts of us,” she said. “The folks who maybe don’t see me as a woman, which is such a shame, but I just hope that they can find a trans person who they can connect with, to see that we are not monsters, that we’re not trying to hurt anyone. We’re really just doing our best the same as everyone else.”
