Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from the Washington Post after it refused to publish a cartoon satirizing its owner, Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes recently announced she was quitting the paper after it spiked her cartoon critical of Post owner Jeff Bezos.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes has quit The Washington Post after her editors rejected a cartoon depicting billionaires genuflecting to President-elect Trump. Telnaes says it was the first time since she began her work at the newspaper in 2008 that she had a cartoon killed because of who or what she chose to aim her pen at.

The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, said in a statement that he disagreed with “her interpretation of events” and that his decision was “guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”

Ann Telnaes said her cartoon aimed to criticize billionaire chief executives she said "have been doing their best to curry favor" with Donald Trump.

Since 2017, a few years after Bezos acquired the Post, its masthead has declared: Democracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed it does. And this is the second time in less than three months that one of America’s most storied newspapers has dimmed its own lights in betrayal to that lofty ethos.

A Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist revealed that she quit her job at The Washington Post after management axed her drawing of billionaires—including Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner—bending the knee to Donald Trump.

As Trump’s inauguration draws near, the financial oligarchy is more openly asserting its control over all aspects of society, including the so-called “free press.”

Last week, the Washington Post, censored a political cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes. It depicted Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire and owner of the Post, and four others, bowing down to Donald Trump.

The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

The cartoon shows a group of media executives bowing before Trump while offering him bags of money, including Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.