Cartoonist Michael de Adder lost his freelance contract with a Canadian newspaper this week after he tweeted a cartoon of President Trump that went viral.
The newspaper claims that this tweet had nothing to do with him losing his job, but the timing is a little too coincidental for most to believe that.
de Adder had a contract to cartoon for four different New Brunswick papers and had been working with them for 17 years in this same capacity. In that time, New Brunswick papers had never picked up a single Trump-related cartoon he had done.
Just days after his tweet on June 26th went viral, he tweeted again, sharing that he lost his job and suggested it was because of the scathing assessment of President Trump. An official press release by the papers stated his contract had been up for renegotiation for a while, and the move was a long time coming.
Cartoon for June 26, 2019 on #trump #BorderCrisis #BORDER #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.com/Gui8DHsebl
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) June 26, 2019
The cartoon de Adder tweeted was of President Trump holding a golf club next to a golf cart, asking ‘Do you mind if I play through?’. He’s asking the dead bodies of two immigrants, drawn from the picture taken at the beginning of the week.
Oscar Alberto Ramirez, 25, and his 2-year-old daughter Angie Valera, both drowned in the Rio Grande while trying to cross from Mexico to the US. The picture of the two on the riverbank face down was difficult for many to see and has continued to spark debate on the immigration issue in the US.
