Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, resigned from the Washington Post after a satirical cartoon depicting billionaires, including one resembling Jeff Bezos, kneeling before a Trump figure was rejected. Telnaes claimed this was the first time a cartoon was blocked due to its subject matter, while the paper stated the rejection was based on similarity to existing columns.
A rough sketch of the cartoon shows several men resembling corporate billionaires kneeling before a man wearing a suit and a long tie, representing Trump .Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post Friday that she quit the Washington Post after a drawing was rejected.
David Shipley, Washington Post editorial page editor, said in a statement that the cartoon was rejected because of its similarity to columns at the paper, not because of who it targeted. A rough sketch of the cartoon, published on Telnaes' Substack blog, shows several men kneeling before a larger man wearing a suit and a long tie, representing Trump. Telnaes wrote that the likenesses are of, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times Publisher Patrick Soon-Shiong, and Bezos. Three of the men are holding bags of money.
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