Media Melt Down Over Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney Joke

During Friday’s redo of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Donald Trump jokingly compared CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins’ appearance to that of Dylan Mulvaney, the mentally ill man cosplaying as a woman. Mulvaney’s viral Bud Light posts three years ago set off a firestorm that resulted in a boycott of Bud Light and crushed the company’s sales.

But his joke inadvertently proved that the corporate media knows the entire trans ideology is one big farce.

“I thought Kaitlan 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,” Trump joked.

Collins later posted a series of photos on Instagram, including one of a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that read, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Corporate media also appeared to have taken offense to the joke, with Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Independent and the Daily Beast framing Trump’s remarks about Collins as an “attack” and listing the Mulvaney comparison as one of the supposed attacks.

The Daily Beast accused Trump of comparing Collins to Mulvaney “in what appeared to be a transphobic gibe.”

The outlet Advocate said, “Trump weaponized trans actress Dylan Mulvaney’s image to attack Kaitlan Collins” and asserted that Trump “tried to demean the CNN journalist by comparing her to Mulvaney.”

AL.com said Trump’s joke was an “insult” to Collins and his doubling down on the joke the next day amounted to “mock[ing]” Collins.

But as The Federalist’s Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on X, it’s unclear “why left-wing media are upset at [the] comparison of Kaitl[a]n Collins to Dylan Mulvaney. If, as they have always asserted, Dylan Mulvaney isn’t just a woman (‘trans women are women’) but a spokesmodel, where *EXACTLY* is the insult from their perspective?”

Of course, as Hemingway subsequently pointed out, it is an insult “if you recognize that men can’t be women, but left-wing media daily spread propaganda and lies of ‘transwomen are women.’”

So where’s the insult?

As it turns out, the insult was aimed at the public. For years left-wing corporate media have demanded Americans go along with the nonsensical position that men can simply become women by saying so. Anyone who pointed out this insane position was branded a bigot or transphobe. Yet the moment Trump compared Collins, a woman, to Mulvaney, a mentally ill man who pretends to be a woman, those same outlets immediately saw the comparison as an insult. Calling it an “attack,” a “gibe,” and an attempt to “demean” Collins is to tacitly acknowledge the very distinction they demanded everyone else deny.

Even more so, these same outlets have previously attacked anyone who made that distinction openly. The Advocate accused J.K. Rowling of having “misgendered trans women” when she liked a tweet calling them “men in dresses.” The Daily Beast accused feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of “transphobia” because she “doesn’t believe trans women are women.”

By their own standard, their coverage of Trump’s joke was “transphobic.” If Mulvaney is every much a woman as Collins, comparing the two would not be inherently demeaning or an “attack.” The comparison only works as an attack or insult if everyone agrees that Collins is a woman and Mulvaney is a man and that comparing a woman’s appearance to a man’s is offensive.

If for nothing else, the meltdown proves what we’ve known all along: The corporate left-wing press doesn’t believe the garbage they spew either.