Add far-right Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to the list of conservatives still throwing a fit that trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney made a 42-second promotional video for Bud Light.
The former Trump administration White House Press Secretary released a new ad in which she joins forces with other far-right Republican women governors to troll the beer company by depicting themselves as "real women" who "don't have to fake it."
Like most right-wing attempts at humor—generally just bullying—the ad landed with a giant thud on the internet.
It's as transphobic as they wanted, but it's so cringe in it makes it seem impossible it's not an SNL sketch.
You can see the video here:
\u201cReal women don\u2019t have to fake it.\n\nWATCH\u2b07\ufe0f\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
The ad is for a new line of beer koozies featuring "The Real Women Of Politics," which seems intended as a transphobic riff on The Real Housewives franchise or something?
To koozies--which are a real product you can actually buy for $15 on Huckabee Sanders' website--feature the faces of prominent female right-wing ideologues Governor Kristi Noem of North Dakota, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama and Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa.
The ad declares:
“Today we salute all the real woman leaders of this great country. Real women, doing real things."
Those "real things" include, according to the shots used in the ad, hunting, fishing, drinking beer out of green bottles that are definitely not Bud Light and, for reasons that will never be known, loading what appear to be dried fish skins into a cardboard box. You know, "real woman" stuff.
The ad goes on to tell us:
"Some big companies can’t tell the difference between real and fake anymore. That’s why we’re introducing the ‘Real Women of Politics’ koozie."
"Now you can salute the real women of politics at every backyard barbecue and tailgate. And if it covers up the label of a big woke company, well, that works too."
The ad is so awkward and unflattering people on Twitter questioned if it was real.
\u201cI swear to god this isn\u2019t satire.\nhttps://t.co/0divx5gU2U\u201d— Walter Masterson (@Walter Masterson) 1682338296
\u201c@SarahHuckabee Never miss a chance to grift, eh? \n\nPS this is the tackiest thing I've seen this year - so kudos for that, anyway.\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
\u201cTHIS HAPPENED.\n\nEverything you have ever seen and heard and known and felt in your life will tell you that the video below is not real. You will try to convince yourself that it is an SNL skit, an Onion video, or even a hallucination. But this is real. This is happening to you.\u201d— Seth Abramson (@Seth Abramson) 1682353416
\u201c@SarahHuckabee \ud83d\ude02 That was hilarious, is this from @nbcsnl ?\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
\u201c@SarahHuckabee Ummm\u2026 I TRULY hope this is a parody video from late night. \n\nREAL women who are REAL patriots who actually know and support veterans - cough cough family - would have a few things to say about those \u201csalutes\u201d. \ud83e\udd28\n(Short mustache not included)\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
\u201c@SarahHuckabee Whoever you got to produce this pranked you, hardcore, and you can't even tell. It's glorious. \ud83d\ude0a\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
\u201c@SarahHuckabee Why are they saluting incorrectly? Seems very un-American.\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
\u201c@SarahHuckabee Did you hire children to make this video?\u201d— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@Sarah Huckabee Sanders) 1682300114
Anyway, nothing says "festive backyard barbecue" like merch worshipping politicians.
So if that's your thing and you feel like throwing $15 at a woman who is a multi-millionaire, you know where to go.
