A left-wing advocacy group said the Washington Post reneged on an agreement to run a front-page advertisement calling for the firing of Elon Musk who is heading up the Trump administration’s efforts to expose corruption and fraud and eliminate government waste.
Washington, D.C-based Common Cause said that the Jeff Bezos-owned outlet backed out of a $115,000 agreement for the wraparound ad covering the front and back pages of some editions of Tuesday’s paper reading “Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?”
The ad: https://t.co/xHSHhykxj9 pic.twitter.com/jcDvCZljyy
— Common Cause (@CommonCause) February 17, 2025
The ad featured a picture of the billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO who has been a hated enemy of Democrats and their allies since he bought Twitter and restored free speech to the platform.
“Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself,” the ad reads.
“The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call your senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk,” the group urges, providing the URL to the the website FireMusk.org. A full-page anti-Musk ad was also to be featured in the newspaper.
Musk’s work as the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has rocked the Beltway with thousands of entitled federal employees having already been downsized and the revelations of the waste of billions of dollars in taxpayer money serving as an eye-opener to Americans of how they’ve been getting fleeced by bureaucrats and their elected representatives.
DOGE has also exposed the long-running money laundering schemes at agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that some have likened to racketeering operations that have been the lifeblood of the thoroughly corrupt Democratic Party.
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post didn’t want you to see our ad questioning who’s in charge of this White House. We wont’t stop holding power accountable. https://t.co/q7xijwZEsg
— Common Cause (@CommonCause) February 17, 2025
The edition with the wraparound ad was to be delivered to WaPo subscribers at Congress, the Pentagon, and the White House.
“We submitted the artwork back on Tuesday of last week. I’m assuming it went through a legal department or other kind of review. They said, ‘You can have something inside the paper but you can’t do the wrap.’ We said thanks, no thanks because we had a lot of questions,” Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón told The Hill.
The organization learned that the wraparound attacking Musk would not be distributed on Friday.
“Is it because we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk? Is it only ok to run things in The Post now that won’t anger the president or won’t have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?” Kase Solomón asked, suggesting that the billionaire Amazon founder is protecting Musk and President Donald J. Trump.
The group said that it had planned to purchase the ad in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, with the SPLC being a controversial far-left bullying organization that has long served as an attack dog for the Democratic Party.
According to the Hill, Kase Solomón said it was “‘a signed agreement’ or a signed purchase order and a “huge” expenditure for Common Cause which had not previously taken out a wraparound ad with the paper.
“The account representative said this didn’t raise any alarms but we would have to submit the artwork, obviously. But [over] the campaign itself they didn’t raise any concerns that it would be something too inflammatory for them,” she told the outlet.
The two left-wing organizations didn’t pay anything since the advertisement did not run.
On its website, Common Cause claims that Musk is executing a “full-scale takeover attempt,” a statement that is as ridiculous as the fake narrative that the January 6, 2021 “insurrection” by several hundred ragtag protesters was a legitimate coup that would have taken control of the entire federal government.
“Elon Musk is using his platform to spread white supremacist rhetoric, including a now-infamous gesture during a Trump rally that white nationalist groups have celebrated. Reports also suggest that Musk played a significant role in decisions to pardon violent January 6th insurrectionists, attempting to rewrite the history of that dark day,” the group states. “Despite these red flags, Trump handed Musk unparalleled access to the highest levels of government without requiring Senate confirmation or adherence to federal ethical standards.”
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