WaPo pulls add to ‘Fire Elon Musk’

An advocacy group was hoping to run a massive ad campaign in the Washington Post to promote the firing of Elon Musk.  

Common Cause had agreed to pay $115,000 to WaPo for a full-page ad on the front and back cover.  

While WaPo initially agreed to the ad, it has since backed out and will no longer run it.  

Sorry 

When first contacted by Common Cause (which was going to run the ad in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund), the group was told it should not be a problem, but WaPo wanted to see the artwork first. 

The ad was to feature text that stated, “Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?” 

It would continue, “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 Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call your senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk.” 

At the bottom of the page would be a link leading to FireMusk.org.  

Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón explained, “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.” 

She continued, “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?” 

She further stated, “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.” 

Common Cause has been after Musk almost from the very first day, already accumulating 60,000 signatures to have him removed from government, as well as encouraging people to call members of Congress and the White House to complain about Musk.  

Again, they act as though every government decision-maker is an elected official, which is far from the case.  

Furthermore, Trump has every right to hire advisers to make policy recommendations to him, which is exactly what DOGE is.  

Musk does not have the final say on any cuts. That falls to Donald Trump AFTER Musk and DOGE make recommendations.  

Once again, it is gaslighting at its finest.