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Canadian cartoonist loses job after Trump illustration goes viral: report

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Press Trust of India Toronto
Last Updated : Jul 01 2019 | 6:40 PM IST

A Canadian cartoonist has lost his job after his controversial illustration of US President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants from El Salvador went viral, according to media reports.

Michael de Adder said on Twitter that he had been let go by a publishing company in New Brunswick, Canada.

De Adder's illustration depicted Trump asking the two dead migrants, "Do you mind if I play through?"
De Adder tweeted that he would bounce back from losing the job and that he just had to "recoup a percentage of my weekly income."
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."

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First Published: Jul 01 2019 | 6:40 PM IST

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