A Canadian cartoonist was fired after his illustration of President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral
De Adder's illustration depicted Trump asking the two dead migrants,"Do you mind if I play through?" The cartoon refers to the image of Oscar Alberto Martínez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lying face down in water surrounded by reeds. The two drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande River to get into the United States.Cartoon for June 26, 2019 on #trump #BorderCrisis #BORDER #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.
— Michael de Adder June 26, 2019 "The highs and lows of cartooning. Today I was just let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick," De Adder tweeted. He later clarified that he had technically been under contract to work for Brunswick News Inc., and wasn't an employee who could be fired.Brunswick News Inc. responded in a statement on Sunday that"it is entirely incorrect to suggest" that it canceled a freelance contract with de Adder over the Trump cartoon.
— Michael de Adder June 28, 2019 Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, a professional group for artists, claimed that the Brunswick newspapers avoided Trump as a subject of its cartoons — and de Adder"was doing them with regularity for the last couple of years, like any cartoonist."De Adder's Trump depiction was the latest controversy surrounding political cartoons.
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