Trump, Amazon and Melania
A Washington Post cartoonist says she has decided to quit after editors rejected her sketch of the newspaper's owner and other media executives bowing to President-elect Donald Trump.
Amazon has paid $40 million for a documentary of Melania Trump’s life story in Jeff Bezos’s latest attempt to ingratiate himself with the president-elect.
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post that it was the first time the Post had rejected a drawing because of whom it targeted.
The cartoonist said it was the first time her work was censored due to its point of view, prompting her decision to leave
The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post quit her job last week after the newspaper killed a cartoon portraying its owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, […] ‘A Disgrace’: Jeff Bezos’ ‘F
The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.
The Washington Post is laying off nearly 100 workers, or 4% of its staff, in an attempt to stem growing losses. The cuts will affect mainly employees on the business side of the storied US newspaper owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has had a contentious relationship with Donald Trump in the Washington Post. But things appear to have changed in recent months.
It was clear that Donald Trump’s election victory was going to be bad news for the legacy news media and the journalists whom he has branded as “fake news” and “enemies of the people” while threatening retribution. Still, it’s been both surprising and disheartening to see the guardians of a free press currying his favor.
Even before the election, the world’s richest man, billionaire Elon Musk, was inseparable from Trump. There’s also Musk’s one-time PayPal colleague, Peter Thiel, who has been a longtime benefactor to incoming Vice President JD Vance.
Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang are names of some of the top industry leaders who have flocked to US President-elect Donald Trump. One of the prime reasons might be the proposed legislation that could land on Trump’s desk during his next term in the White House.