A transgender influencer fired back at President Donald Trump after his joke comparing the biological male to CNN's Kaitlan Collins during Friday night's White House Correspondent's Association (WHCA) Dinner went viral."Maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all," said Dylan Mulvaney in a TikTok post on Sunday."Because it puts me in the company of some of the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today."Mulvaney, once a social media star and one of the most recognizable transgender people in the United States, has maintained a low profile over the past few years since an advertising debacle featuring the influencer tanked the stock of a major beer company.Mulvaney referred to the Bud Light backlash as kind of a "mind game." (ABC screenshot)TRUMP SPARES NO ONE AT WHCA DINNER, TAKING AIM AT DEMS, PRESS AND HIS OWN CABINETBut Mulvaney was thrust back into the spotlight after Trump's WHCA Dinner joke comparing the transgender influencer to Collins, a longtime media foe of the 45th and 47th president."I thought Kaitlan Collins had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney," he said, referencing the beer brand's failed marketing campaign.In 2023, Bud Light partnered with Mulvaney for a March Madness promotion.
On Instagram, Mulvaney posted a video featuring a Bud Light can with their face on it, sparking intense backlash, a prolonged boycott and a more than $27 billion loss in market cap for Anheuser-Busch."To the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew," Mulvaney said in the Sunday video."And to quote my favorite recording artist, Shea Diamond, ‘I am America.’"CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins looks on before the start of the press briefing with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Janu...