Arithmetic this is not: The owners of (what used to be one of my favourite beers) Yuengling is backing Donald Trump’s Presidential run. As a result, many D.C. establishments are now boycotting the beer as a response. From Washington Post:

For 45 minutes, [Eric Trump & Dick Yuengling] walked through the brewery, talking about American success stories and the plight of U.S. businesses under the Obama administration (despite the fact that Yuengling has been described as Obama’s favorite brew).

“My father’s going to make it a lot easier for business to function,” Eric Trump told the room, according to the Reading Eagle. “We’re going to do it right here in the U.S.”

Then Yuengling, 73, who turned the struggling family business into a $550 million enterprise, who shoved the beverage into the marketplace and who oversaw its rise as a cheap but dignified working class beer, offered the embattled and nosediving GOP nominee a political gift: his company’s endorsement.

“Our guys are behind your father,” Yuengling said. “We need him in there.”

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