The cartoon is amusing: It depicts four billionaires bringing their offerings in bags of dollars and Mickey Mouse prostrating himself before the statue of a commander who appears to be none other than Donald Trump. But it didn't please the Washington Post's editors, who refused to publish it, provoking, on Friday, January 4, the shock resignation of cartoonist Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize winner and contributor to the paper since 2008.

The characters are recognizable: Jeff Bezos, owner of the newspaper and founder of Amazon Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Meta; Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI; and Patrick Soon-Shiong, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, while the mouse represents Disney, which agreed to everyone's surprise to pay $15 million (€14.5 million) to close a defamation suit brought by Donald Trump. "The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago," lamented cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who explained that this is the first time a drawing has been refused on editorial grounds.

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