Michael de Adder opens up about being dumped by N.B. newspapers after viral Trump cartoon
Canadian editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder says he'll have a lot more editorial freedom now that he's no longer writing for a group of Irving-owned New Brunswick newspapers.
De Adder's freelance contract with Brunswick News Inc. (BNI) was terminated days after he shared a viral cartoon depicting U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf next to the face-down bodies of two Salvarodian migrants.
The cartoon was based on the devastating photo by Julia Le Duc of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his young daughter, Valeria, who drowned in the Rio Grande while trying to cross into Brownsville, Texas.
BNI says cutting ties with de Adder had nothing to do with the Trump cartoon. The news organization is owned by the province's Irving family, which owns a myriad of companies with ties to U.S. trade, including Irving Oil and Irving Shipbuilding.
De Adder says he finds it hard to believe it's just a coincidence he was fired so soon after publishing what he says is the most successful cartoon of his career.
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