A Canadian cartoonist was let go of his freelance contract after he drew a controversial cartoon showing President Trump and the bodies of two dead migrants.
The cartoon by Michael de Adder, shows a golf-attire clad Trump, standing next to a golf cart and looking down on the bodies of two drowned migrants with the caption, “Do you mind if I play through?”
Cartoon for June 26, 2019 on #trump #BorderCrisis #BORDER #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.com/Gui8DHsebl
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) June 26, 2019
The dead migrants are a recreation of a viral photo of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, who died while crossing the Rio Grande.
De Adder claims that he lost the contract gig because of the cartoon, but Brunswick News, his former employer claimed that it was a “false narrative” and that the decision to replace de Adder had been made “long before this cartoon.”
De Adder, though, said over Twitter that there has been a long history of the publishing company rejecting his cartoons that featured Trump.
“Does it matter if I was fired over one Donald Trump cartoon when every Donald Trump cartoon I submitted in the past year was axed?” he tweeted.
“It got to the point where I didn’t submit any Donald Trump cartoons for fear that I might be fired.”
Does it matter if I was fired over one Donald Trump cartoon when every Donald Trump cartoon I submitted in the past year was axed?
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) July 1, 2019
It got to the point where I didn’t submit any Donald Trump cartoons for fear that I might be fired.
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) July 1, 2019
The Washington Examiner reached out to de Adder for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
