Washington Post Cartoonist Resigns Over Rejected Bezos-Trump Caricature

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes leaves the Washington Post after her depiction of tech moguls kneeling before Donald Trump is refused publication.

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, resigned after the paper declined to publish one of her recent works.
The rejected cartoon depicted Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders offering money to a statue of President-elect Donald Trump as a critique of their recent donations to his inauguration fund.
Amazon and Meta each contributed $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund, with Bezos and Zuckerberg also meeting Trump personally in apparent efforts to mend prior conflicts.
Telnaes criticized the decision as a dangerous precedent for press freedom, stating it was the first time her work was rejected due to its subject matter.
The Washington Post defended its decision, citing concerns over redundancy with other editorial content on the same topic, not bias or censorship.