News · moment 14 of 19
Goya Beans CEO Controversy and the Imaginary Bush's Baked Beans Feud
from #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show · #208
6 min
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Tim discusses the boycott of Goya Foods after its CEO praised Trump, riffs on an imaginary rivalry with the Bush's Baked Beans guy and Duke the dog doing a Nazi salute, and notes Trump's actual Latino polling numbers.
- Goya beans CEO said he liked Trump, causing outrage among people who Tim notes have probably never eaten Goya beans themselves.
- Tim clarifies he eats Bush's baked beans, the grill style, and has no stake in the Goya controversy.
- Goya experienced a surge in popularity during lockdown before the boycott backlash over the CEO's Trump comments.
- Tim jokes that if the Goya guy likes Trump, the Bush's baked beans CEO must be a Hitler enthusiast somewhere.
- All the Goya CEO said was that they're blessed to have a leader like Trump; Tim suggests poor people should still buy Goya instead of switching to expensive alternatives.
- Goya beans are just red kidney beans that are pretty bland; Tim questions what Latin cultures actually do to dress them up.
- Tim imagines the Bush's baked beans CEO and Duke the dog getting invited to the Rose Garden and praising Trump in increasingly extreme ways.
- Tim describes the satirical scenario of Duke the dog from Bush's baked beans doing a Hitler salute in the Rose Garden and the PR nightmare that would follow.
- A lot of Latinos like Trump—Trump got 30% of the Latino vote, making the boycott controversy more complicated than critics acknowledge.
- Tim points out that 30 percent of Latino voters supporting Trump apparently makes them white supremacists according to the boycott logic.
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