Washington Post Cartoonist Reveals She Quit After Paper Killed Piece With Bezos, Trump
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Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote that her editor prevented her from doing the "critical job" of holding "powerful people and institutions accountable."
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes on Friday revealed that she quit the newspaper after it killed a piece depicting its billionaire owner, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, on bended knee for President-elect Donald Trump.
“I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,” wrote the Pulitzer Prize winner in a post to her Substack page.
Telnaes — who began work at the Post in 2008 — shared a rough draft of the cartoon which also shows Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, The Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Mickey Mouse (to represent The Walt Disney Company, parent company of ABC News) kissing Trump’s ring.
The figures appear to be offering Trump bags of money, offering to kiss him or — in Mickey’s case — bowing to him as he’s perched atop of a set of steps.
Telnaes wrote that the cartoon criticizes those “who have been doing their best to curry favor” with Trump.
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