Kid Rock confronts Anheuser-Busch CEO, explains why he's against Bud Light boycott, has message for transgender community

Kid Rock said he recently confronted the Anheuser-Busch CEO over the Bud Light boycott. The rap-rock pioneer said he opposes a boycott against the now-controversial beer brand and emphasized that he has no hate for transgender individuals.

Bud Light faced controversy after the beer brand partnered with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney in April.

Kid Rock — whose real name is Robert James Ritchie — was one of the first celebrities to protest the beer brand teaming up with the "Days of Girlhood" social media influencer.

In April, Rock posted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light on the X social media platform – which went viral and racked up more than 53 million views.

Rock ranted in the video, "F*** Bud Light and f*** Anheuser-Busch!"

Last Saturday, Rock attended UFC 295 in New York City along with former President Donald Trump, UFC CEO Dana White, and Tucker Carlson. During the MMA event at Madison Square Garden, Rock claimed that he confronted the CEO of Anheuser-Busch.

“I’m standing there with our favorite president,” Rock told Sean Hannity on Wednesday. "And someone comes over, like, ‘The CEO of Anheuser-Busch is standing right behind you.’ So I go over to POTUS. I’m like, ‘Hey, that’s the CEO of Anheuser-Busch.’ Trump’s like, ‘You wanna go talk to him?’ I’m like, … ‘I do.'"

The pair reportedly engaged the AB InBev CEO.

The Detroit rocker told the Fox News host, "We actually had a great conversation. Because if you put this in context, why did this start? It’s like … I told him that night, ‘You signaled to a lot of people like myself, like-minded people … put the trans thing aside for a minute, right. But by sending that can to the trans kid, you kind of signaled to us you support this lifestyle.'”

He added, "And more importantly, like men being in women’s sports; they’re in my granddaughter's locker room. Most of us draw a hard line right there."

Rock clarified that he never called for a Bud Light boycott because of the negative effects it could have on "working-class people."

"I know people that work there, and it's not so cool to be wearing around that blue shirt anymore, going places," Rock said. "This is why they have a problem right now. It's like, I can let the thing go."

"As a God-fearing man, as a Christian, I have to believe in forgiveness," the rock star declared. "They made a mistake, all right. What do you want, hold their head under water and drown them and kill people's jobs? I don't want to do that."

"But I hope — at the same time, I don't want to be their biggest cheerleader," he added. "I want them to show me something to get me back as a consumer, as a drinker."

He also had a message for the LGBTQ community.

“You know, if someone wants to be trans, you know, I didn’t rip that kid,” he said of Dylan Mulvaney. “I said, ‘F you guys.’ I didn’t even say boycott or cancel. I said, ‘F you.’ I said, ‘What are you doing? Injecting yourself into this conversation, these polarizing social issues.’ I was like, ‘You know, you could be doing so much more positive stuff, just making us laugh and drink beer.'”

“If someone wants to dress up like a girl, they want to be transgender or whatever, a lot of people fought and died for them to do that," Rock explained. "Go for it. We can coexist, you know, in public places. You might not be my first dinner invite, you know what I mean? And I’m probably not yours."

“Be yourself. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you. That’s how most people are," Rock said before adding, "But as soon a you bring our kids into this, that’s when you’re gonna bring hatred into it. Leave our freaking kids out of it.”