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BumRushDaShow

(160,657 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:30 PM Jun 2025

Walmart Faces MAGA Boycott After Heiress Funds 'No Kings' Ad

Source: Newsweek

Published Jun 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM EDT | Updated Jun 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM EDT


Walmart heiress Christy Walton is facing backlash, and Walmart is facing some calls for a boycott from Trump supporters after placing a full-page ad in The New York Times urging Americans to attend town halls and engage in civic discourse.

While the "No Kings Day" ad did not mention President Donald Trump by name, its emphasis on values like honoring commitments to allies, defending against dictators, and respecting trading partners was widely interpreted as a critique of Trump's foreign policy and "America First" agenda. A spokesperson for Walmart told Newsweek: "The advertisements from Christy Walton are in no way connected to or endorsed by Walmart. She does not serve on the board or play any role in decision making at Walmart."

Why It Matters

Walmart has faced criticism in the last several months, being one of many companies targeted by the "economic blackout" movement this year, alongside Amazon, Nestlé and General Mills.

This backlash could cause MAGA-leaning American shoppers to step back from the retailer, potentially impacting sales as the chain faces criticism from other groups as well.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-faces-maga-boycott-after-heiress-funds-no-kings-ad-2083607





Looks like the MAGatsophere is melting down over this!
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Walmart Faces MAGA Boycott After Heiress Funds 'No Kings' Ad (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 OP
Mind-boggling, but I'll take the support. Likewise Disney's granddaughter is a big progressive supporter. hlthe2b Jun 2025 #1
If it names no one in particular UpInArms Jun 2025 #2
If they see "Treat everyone fairly/equitably," it gets their panties in a bunch wolfie001 Jun 2025 #8
The most "snowflake"-y liberal arts college student is a veritable stoic... JHB Jun 2025 #20
We can all learn from those folks, true! wolfie001 Jun 2025 #29
Yeah but it doesn't say that. nt. druidity33 Jun 2025 #57
Derp derp wolfie001 Jun 2025 #75
Did you even look at the ad? druidity33 Jun 2025 #77
Oh well wolfie001 Jun 2025 #78
I responded to the initial comment... druidity33 Jun 2025 #79
I didn't follow "Your protocol" wolfie001 Jun 2025 #80
A hit dog will holler. skypilot Jun 2025 #18
LOL. A lot of MAGA live in small towns where Walmart is their only option. tanyev Jun 2025 #3
Yeah. Aristus Jun 2025 #4
Cousin Eddie! Permanut Jun 2025 #33
Ha, ha, ha! PatSeg Jun 2025 #19
Yeah, that was my first thought not fooled Jun 2025 #46
The largest employer too. czarjak Jun 2025 #65
Yep! Chi67 Jun 2025 #69
They'll need to move their live-in RVs. quaint Jun 2025 #73
Appreciate whatever truth is presented. The firehose of misinformation needs a counter. Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #5
OMG I might finally have a reason to shop at Walmart! LauraInLA Jun 2025 #6
I still won't shop there Jkanad Jun 2025 #67
A Pleasant Surprise! GB_RN Jun 2025 #7
It's a long drive from Dumbfuckville to the nearest store not named "Wal-Mart." Basso8vb Jun 2025 #9
Yea either Wal-Mart or Dollar General LiberalArkie Jun 2025 #11
This tells me that MAGAts support Dicktatorships. Hmm, go figure. n/t aggiesal Jun 2025 #10
Wally's won't miss them, maybe they can start dressing out of Home Depot Warpy Jun 2025 #12
Where are they going to shop if not WalMart? NoMoreRepugs Jun 2025 #13
kudos to Ms. Walton Skittles Jun 2025 #14
LOL I live in MAGAt country. piddyprints Jun 2025 #15
MAGA is addicted to WallyWorld.. Where are they gonna get their red hats?? This ain't gonna last..nt mitch96 Jun 2025 #16
Mallwart is the biggest grocery chain in the country Hassler Jun 2025 #17
Magapotamia Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 2025 #50
Ooops! Where they gonna shop? Costco? Cha Jun 2025 #21
Where else are MAGAts going to shop? AverageOldGuy Jun 2025 #22
Welcome to the resistance Ms Walton. Nonnia Bisnez Jun 2025 #23
Who gives a shit if MAGA boycotts Walmart? hadEnuf Jun 2025 #24
Of course a WalMart heiress would feel this way customerserviceguy Jun 2025 #25
That's a good point. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 2025 #51
Bring it on. D. Spaulding Jun 2025 #26
Oh well... Figarosmom Jun 2025 #27
Where do they have left to shop? JBTaurus83 Jun 2025 #28
I guess that just leaves the dollar store. Ray Bruns Jun 2025 #48
They are boycotting Target AND Walmart. Let's find a good reason for them to boycott Dollar General. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #30
Well the aisles will be empty of magats dweller Jun 2025 #31
especially beloved by me will be the absence of their screaming slightlv Jun 2025 #34
Let 'em boycott Mysterian Jun 2025 #32
She's so good Lulu KC Jun 2025 #35
"Hey America, resist fascism!" "...HOW DARE YOU ATTACK TRUMP LIKE THAT!!" Grokenstein Jun 2025 #36
But, but...Where will MAGATS shop now? Beacool Jun 2025 #37
Maybe they can create a conservatives-only store chain! Grokenstein Jun 2025 #38
trumpland et tu Jun 2025 #41
Well they love to brag about how self sufficient they are. Demobrat Jun 2025 #39
Gee, looks like MAGAts will not be contributing to the rotting economy any time soon. appleannie1 Jun 2025 #40
Don't forget the Bible shops located between the gun shops StarryNite Jun 2025 #42
She also donated to Hilary Lulu KC Jun 2025 #43
Good for her!! walkingman Jun 2025 #44
I"m not a Walmart shopper. murielm99 Jun 2025 #45
Let them go to Dollar General. Oopsie Daisy Jun 2025 #47
In many rural communities, Walmart bankrupted all the competitors JT45242 Jun 2025 #49
No way on the god's green earth gab13by13 Jun 2025 #52
Walmart put lots of mom and pop stores out of business. multigraincracker Jun 2025 #53
Funding a no kings ad and supporting DEI is good enough for me Sucha NastyWoman Jun 2025 #54
Stupid MAGA MORONS!! Canada Kid Jun 2025 #55
We've started shopping at WM from time to time. AllyCat Jun 2025 #56
They do have very affordable diabetic supplies IbogaProject Jun 2025 #58
Silly them, don't they know boycotts don't work. Hotler Jun 2025 #59
The "boycott" will be like a fart in the wind Picaro Jun 2025 #60
"...urging Americans to attend town halls and engage in civic discourse." That bitch!! Grins Jun 2025 #61
I NEVER thought I'd be remotely aligned with anything involving any of the Waltons. Life is a funny old dog. BobTheSubgenius Jun 2025 #62
MAGAs love dictators and not having freedom Owens Jun 2025 #63
Ruh Roh, does she have more money than the orange plague? twodogsbarking Jun 2025 #64
She has a lot more money than him progressoid Jun 2025 #66
I doubt it very much Blue Ozarks Jun 2025 #68
Buy Dollar General Stock! WVreaper Jun 2025 #70
How many MAGAots DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #71
Here is the irony in all this. Huge swaths of red Amerika have no place else to shop other than Wally World. flashman13 Jun 2025 #72
A pretty great ad. I highly freaking doubt mahina Jun 2025 #74
Really Traildogbob Jun 2025 #76
The Walton family share their bounty with the nation. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #81

hlthe2b

(111,444 posts)
1. Mind-boggling, but I'll take the support. Likewise Disney's granddaughter is a big progressive supporter.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:32 PM
Jun 2025

UpInArms

(53,435 posts)
2. If it names no one in particular
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:34 PM
Jun 2025

Why are they upset?

Does that mean they realize that MAGAts are the problem?

wolfie001

(6,213 posts)
8. If they see "Treat everyone fairly/equitably," it gets their panties in a bunch
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:24 PM
Jun 2025

Biggest snowflakes that ever existed.

JHB

(37,835 posts)
20. The most "snowflake"-y liberal arts college student is a veritable stoic...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:58 PM
Jun 2025

...compared to these perpetually-triggered outrage addicts.

These people somehow manage to be constantly full of shit while constantly losing theirs.

wolfie001

(6,213 posts)
29. We can all learn from those folks, true!
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:47 PM
Jun 2025

They're brave to pursue what they want in life. I got married young and next thing you know, kids. Go to work, pay bills. A la Fred Flinestone.

wolfie001

(6,213 posts)
75. Derp derp
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:09 PM
Jun 2025

The Lady was talking about "No King's Day" and that got their panties in a bunch. Same thing, same mindset. Are you defending RW scum? I don't need a lecture from you. 👉👊🌟

druidity33

(6,829 posts)
77. Did you even look at the ad?
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jun 2025

There is absolutely nothing objectionable in it to support outrage by the right. Not even a hint of the "Treat everyone fairly/equitably," that you put in quotes.

I don't need a lecture from you either. Derp Derp yourself.


wolfie001

(6,213 posts)
78. Oh well
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 06:39 AM
Jun 2025

"There is absolutely nothing objectionable in it to support outrage by the right." Which is of course why I said the RW loons are getting their panties in a bunch. Don't know why you even responded to the initial comment I made. It's pointless.

druidity33

(6,829 posts)
79. I responded to the initial comment...
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 06:50 AM
Jun 2025
because you put something in quotes as if you were quoting someone. Which you weren't... just figured i'd point that out to the people paying attention.



wolfie001

(6,213 posts)
80. I didn't follow "Your protocol"
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 03:01 PM
Jun 2025

Which is quite argumentative and petty as F. I'm starting to think you got a little bit "J" when you saw all "My recs" on "My post." Now go away, you petty fella. Is that enough "quotes" 4 you?

tanyev

(47,875 posts)
3. LOL. A lot of MAGA live in small towns where Walmart is their only option.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:38 PM
Jun 2025

Good luck with that boycott.

Aristus

(70,952 posts)
4. Yeah.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 06:45 PM
Jun 2025

Where else is a 300 pound guy wearing Speedo underwear under his sagging sweat pants going to go for his six-pack of Bud Lite?

czarjak

(13,208 posts)
65. The largest employer too.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:46 PM
Jun 2025

"What have you got to lose?"
Lib-ownership. They can't afford it.

LiberalArkie

(18,970 posts)
11. Yea either Wal-Mart or Dollar General
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:36 PM
Jun 2025

But I still look at early on going to Wal-Mart and encountering the first store that has sales people in wheelchairs and downs syndrome greeters. People who not be employed anywhere else.

Warpy

(113,946 posts)
12. Wally's won't miss them, maybe they can start dressing out of Home Depot
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:39 PM
Jun 2025

You know, tar paper loincloths for MAGA males, blue tarp chemises for the women.

piddyprints

(15,020 posts)
15. LOL I live in MAGAt country.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:46 PM
Jun 2025

We have very few choices and they all shop at Walmart.

Maybe their plan is to starve themselves?

mitch96

(15,500 posts)
16. MAGA is addicted to WallyWorld.. Where are they gonna get their red hats?? This ain't gonna last..nt
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:47 PM
Jun 2025

Cha

(314,594 posts)
21. Ooops! Where they gonna shop? Costco?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:59 PM
Jun 2025

Mahalo and to Christy Walton!

This Ad is Priceless.. she's actually Doing America a Favor.. the Cult is just too Brainwashed to Notice.

AverageOldGuy

(2,989 posts)
22. Where else are MAGAts going to shop?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:17 PM
Jun 2025

I mean much/most of Trumps support comes from red states and rural areas. Walmart is the only shopping available in most of those regions.

hadEnuf

(3,408 posts)
24. Who gives a shit if MAGA boycotts Walmart?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:29 PM
Jun 2025

MAGA is only proving that they DO want Trump to be a king.

And that is totally un-American and totally treasonous. I don't blame Walmart for not wanting to associate with that scum.
Smartest thing they can do.

It's clear what MAGA now stands for and worrying about what they think puts a person right there with them.
They need to be isolated.

customerserviceguy

(25,402 posts)
25. Of course a WalMart heiress would feel this way
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:30 PM
Jun 2025

WalMart has become the outlet store for communist China. They've been profiting off of selling out the American manufacturing worker.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,795 posts)
51. That's a good point.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:25 AM
Jun 2025

Remember those “Made in the USA” signs we would see inside of a Walmart store? They disappeared during the Bush administration when companies ramped up on outsourcing labor.

That being said, I still give Christy Walton kudos for being in support of the No Kings movement.

D. Spaulding

(394 posts)
26. Bring it on.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:31 PM
Jun 2025

I rarely shop there, but I'll make an exception and go several times a week just to thwart the clowns.

Figarosmom

(8,724 posts)
27. Oh well...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jun 2025

This won't last long. They love WallMart and really can't afford anywhere else, I'd think. Especially the ones that will be losing their Medicaid and having to take grandma in with them when the nursing home kicks her out.

JBTaurus83

(681 posts)
28. Where do they have left to shop?
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:40 PM
Jun 2025

They protest Target and Costco. I guess they will be scraping roadkill up.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,768 posts)
30. They are boycotting Target AND Walmart. Let's find a good reason for them to boycott Dollar General. . . .nt
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jun 2025

slightlv

(6,614 posts)
34. especially beloved by me will be the absence of their screaming
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 08:59 PM
Jun 2025

babies and toddlers running anywhere and everywhere, picking up everything and throwing it at the nearest adult available.

Grokenstein

(6,150 posts)
36. "Hey America, resist fascism!" "...HOW DARE YOU ATTACK TRUMP LIKE THAT!!"
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:04 PM
Jun 2025
"Stop calling him a dictator or I'll call the gestapo and have you disappeared!!"

Grokenstein

(6,150 posts)
38. Maybe they can create a conservatives-only store chain!
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:15 PM
Jun 2025

Should be a huge success, right?

...Nah, the National Guard will be called out to occupy every Costco.

Demobrat

(10,211 posts)
39. Well they love to brag about how self sufficient they are.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:22 PM
Jun 2025

They all grow their own veggies, keep chickens for eggs, and hunt and fish. So they should be able to do without WallyWorld with no problem. TP might be a problem, but it’s early summer so leaves will be plentiful for now.

appleannie1

(5,346 posts)
40. Gee, looks like MAGAts will not be contributing to the rotting economy any time soon.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 09:24 PM
Jun 2025

Wally World, the gun shop and the liquor store are their stores to frequent.

Lulu KC

(8,263 posts)
43. She also donated to Hilary
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 10:52 PM
Jun 2025

and if you get stuck in Bentonville, AR, go see her magnificent Crystal Bridges Museum.

JT45242

(3,637 posts)
49. In many rural communities, Walmart bankrupted all the competitors
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:27 AM
Jun 2025

They can go to dollar general etc and pay 2-3 times more per ounce and get no produce or they can go to Walmart.

MAGAts will act all butt hurt until they realize that the boxes of cereal at the dollar store are less than two bowls of cereal.

gab13by13

(29,869 posts)
52. No way on the god's green earth
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:25 AM
Jun 2025

will Magats boycott Walmart, especially after Krasnov takes away SNAP. I just went to my local meat market yesterday that has great meat, but it isn't cheap.

multigraincracker

(36,337 posts)
53. Walmart put lots of mom and pop stores out of business.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:36 AM
Jun 2025

Now Amazon is putting Walmarts out of business. What next?

Sucha NastyWoman

(3,016 posts)
54. Funding a no kings ad and supporting DEI is good enough for me
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:50 AM
Jun 2025

I’m changing my attitude about Walmart.

 

Canada Kid

(257 posts)
55. Stupid MAGA MORONS!!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:55 AM
Jun 2025

Most of these dumb hillbilly shits live in rural ares where the only place to shop is at a local Walmart. If they boycott the store, they don't eat, buy clothing, get medicines, get toiletries. So I guess they just sit...vegetate....and drink moonshine. YEEHAWW!!

AllyCat

(18,233 posts)
56. We've started shopping at WM from time to time.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:01 AM
Jun 2025

We are done with Target. If I’ve exhausted other reasonable places to buy things I go to Walmart.

Walgreens is overpriced, our other choice for groceries is Kroger (ewww…and it smells in there), and Aldi doesn’t have everything I need.

Walmart is still a bad organization, but they did raise employee wages and I like this heiress.

IbogaProject

(5,022 posts)
58. They do have very affordable diabetic supplies
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:51 AM
Jun 2025

Including very affordible insulin. Old style human insulin is super cheap there and can be bought with out a prescription. Too many dont know this. Their test strips and sugar pills?are equally very affordable. I still hate their business model but that horse has been out of tge barn 30 to 40 years now.

Picaro

(2,193 posts)
60. The "boycott" will be like a fart in the wind
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jun 2025

Walmart hollowed out the core of rural America. All those IGAs have been gone for decades. The rural MAGATs have nowhere else to shop.

Walmart destroyed the base economy of small town America. Now Amazon is here to finish the job. But that is another story.

This will go nowhere because it can’t go anywhere.

Grins

(8,897 posts)
61. "...urging Americans to attend town halls and engage in civic discourse." That bitch!!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:37 PM
Jun 2025

How. Dare. Yew? Defend the constitution.

Odd that the MAGA never said a word when a grocery (that old word, again) heiress funded the January 6th attempted Coup d’Etat.

BobTheSubgenius

(12,099 posts)
62. I NEVER thought I'd be remotely aligned with anything involving any of the Waltons. Life is a funny old dog.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:51 PM
Jun 2025

I don't think their boycott will last long, if at all. Go through the inventory at Hobby Lobby, Dick's and Dollar General and see how long you could live on what they offer.

progressoid

(51,992 posts)
66. She has a lot more money than him
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jun 2025

But in terms of the Walton family, she's just average; $19 Billion.

Her sister-in-law Alice is worth 109 Billion.

Blue Ozarks

(36 posts)
68. I doubt it very much
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:46 PM
Jun 2025

Finances trump Principles every time w these folks.

And yes, pun intended! lol

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
71. How many MAGAots
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:04 PM
Jun 2025

read the NYT...........or even read at all???????????????????

She should have run it as a commercial on Fox News repeatedly in prime time.........if she truly wanted it heard by the MAGAots......

flashman13

(1,526 posts)
72. Here is the irony in all this. Huge swaths of red Amerika have no place else to shop other than Wally World.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:11 PM
Jun 2025

Not only that, but it is the most affordable place for people of limited means to shop. So go ahead and boycott Walmart. FAFO!

See you all June 14.

mahina

(20,067 posts)
74. A pretty great ad. I highly freaking doubt
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:17 PM
Jun 2025

The wingers are going to seriously boycott Walmart.

Traildogbob

(11,882 posts)
76. Really
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:13 PM
Jun 2025

That’s like a 3 pack a day smoker boycotting American cigarettes. They might last a few hours.
The Dollar Store got all the Jina shit they need.

Kid Berwyn

(21,996 posts)
81. The Walton family share their bounty with the nation.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 08:45 PM
Jun 2025

Jobs and that art gallery that is a work of art.

Glad to know they raise their kids to think for themselves.

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