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The Washington Post Building at One Franklin Square Building on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON — An award-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post has announced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper’s billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump was rejected.
Ann Telnaesluckyhub777 posted on Substack late Friday that this was the first time she “had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at.”
Article continues after this advertisementThe cartoon — which she included in her post — depicts Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, as well as Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and other media and tech moguls, kneeling and holding up bags of money before a massive Trump.
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Also shown is a prostrated Mickey Mouse, the symbol of the Disney Company, which owns ABC News. The television network recently reached a $15 million settlement with Trump after he sued for defamation over reporting on his sexual abuse trial in New York.
Article continues after this advertisementTelnaes wrote that while previous sketches of hers had been rejected, this was the first time that had happened because of her “point of view.”
Since then, the 39-year-old says the prices he gets from purchasers have fallen by half and he’s had to scale back to four workers and about one-third of the ponds, some months not even breaking even. His wife has had to take a job at a watermelon farm to help support their two children.
Article continues after this advertisement“That’s a game changer… and dangerous for a free press,” she said.
Article continues after this advertisementThe Washington Post, whose slogan is “democracy dies in darkness,” said Telnaes’s work had not been rejected due to any “malign force.”
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Article continues after this advertisement“We had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication,” editorial page editor David Shipley said in a statement. “The only bias was against repetition.”
The US media aggressively covered Trump’s chaotic first term, which included two impeachments and ended with his refusal to recognize defeat in the 2020 election — culminating with a mob of his supporters storming Congress.
As Trump prepares for his January 20 inauguration, after having defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November, there are signs that top CEOs, including in the media, are eager to build good relations.
A stream of senior moguls, from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Bezos Zuckerberg, have traveled to meet Trump at his Florida estate.
Elon Musk, owner of influential social media platform X and the world’s richest person, is one of the president-elect’s closest advisors.
Amazon and Meta have both announced $1 million donations to Trump’s inauguration fund, as reportedly has Apple’s Cook in a personal capacity.
Bezos caused a stir just ahead of the presidential election when he broke with years of tradition and ruled against the Post endorsing a candidate.
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Telnaes, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and other awards for her work, had worked for the Post since 2008.
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