Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender actress and advocate whom President Donald Trump repeatedly mocked during his speech Friday at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, called the insults “the greatest compliment of all” in a video posted Sunday.

“Maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all, because it puts me in the company of some of like the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today,” Mulvaney said.

During his speech Friday, which had been rescheduled from April after a man shooting a gun tried to enter the ballroom, Trump raised Mulvaney’s 2023 Bud Light partnership that sparked outrage among conservatives. He compared her to CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, whom he also insulted, in a roast-style joke that was met with silence from the crowd of reporters at the dinner.

“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 said in his speech after Collins accepted an award from the association for her coverage of the February 2025 Oval Office exchange between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan any time soon,” Trump said.

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