2 days Ago By Hannah Broughton
A new report has revealed that The Washington Post pulled a $115,000 front and back page advert calling for President Donald Trump to “fire” Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency head. According to The Hill, the advocacy group Common Cause and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund signed an agreement for the anti-Musk wrap advert to appear in Tuesday’s newspaper edition. It was also going to appear as a full page inside.
The Washington Post paper with the “Fire Elon Musk” wrap would have been delivered to subscribers at Congress , the Pentagon and the White House. The ad reads “Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?,” and includes a cut-out of a laughing Musk and the White House. It is still available to view on the Common Cause website.
“Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time.
Call Your Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk,” it reads. There is also a QR code at the bottom of the page that directs readers to the link ‘Fire.Musk.
org’, which asks for donations between $10 and $100 to help the organization hold ‘power accountable.’ “The SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund] is yet another scam. No more mooching off the taxpayer for them,” Musk posted in response to the ad on Monday.
Virginia Kase Solomón, president of Common Cause, told The Hill it was “a signed agreement” that “didn’t raise any concerns that it would be something too inflammatory for them” before the artwork was sent. She confirmed that no money was exchanged as the advert didn’t run. Questioning whether it was the relationship between Jeff Bezos and Trump which caused the ad to be pulled, she said, “Is it because we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk? “Is it only ok to run things in The Post now that won’t anger the president or won’t have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?” In 2013, Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos bought The Post for $250 million.
Many of those working for the paper were worried about his potential interference with the day-to-day operations of the paper. The Washington Post is predominantly a Democrat-supporting paper, although it has supported Republican candidates in the past..
