The drawing shows the founder of Amazon on his knees handing a bag of money to a statue representing Donald Trump.
Published on 04/01/2025 19:03
Updated on 04/01/2025 19:15
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She prefers to go out the door. The famous press cartoonist American Ann Telnaes announced, Saturday January 4, that it had resigned from Washington Postdue to management's rejection of a caricature in which she criticized the daily's owner, Jeff Bezos.
The drawing, published Friday on his blog, shows the founder of Amazon on his knees handing a bag bearing the dollar sign to a statue representing the future American president, Donald Trump.
Designer for the Washington Post since 2008, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for press cartoons in 2001, Ann Telnaes explains on her blog that she did not “never had a design rejected” because of the subject she had chosen to depict, “until now.” “The drawing that was suppressed criticizes the tech and media bosses and billionaires who are doing everything to curry favor with the president-elect”she writes.
In the drawing, Jeff Bezos is alongside the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the owner of Los Angeles TimesPatrick Soon-Shiong. A little further on, a prostrate Mickey Mouse represents the Walt Disney Company, itself owner of ABC News.
Before the November election, Jeff Bezos had prevented the Washington Post to call for a vote for Kamala Harris, while voting recommendations by editorial committees are a tradition in the United States. A first in forty years.
