Protesters Rename Larry Ellison’s Yacht ‘Trump Propagandist’
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A superyacht owned by a billionaire Larry Ellison was adorned with a banner reading “Trump’s Propagandist” by protesters this week.
In a video showing them putting up the banner on Ellison’s yacht this week, a spokesperson for protest group Led By Donkeys explained:
This is Larry Ellison’s $160 million superyacht, moored on the French Riviera. We call it Musashi, but not for long, because we’re about to rename it. Ellison is the sixth richest man in the world. He is a big supporter of Donald Trump and a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu. He once offered the Israeli prime minister a job at his company, and Netanyahu’s family vacationed on his private island. Ellison is also the largest private donor to the Israeli military. Trump recently gave the Ellison family control of TikTok in the United States. Almost immediately, key pro-Palestinian voices were silenced.
Last year, the Ellisons purchased Paramount, giving them control of CBS News. The network’s coverage of the attack on Iran has been particularly pro-war, and the Ellisons will soon take over Warner Brothers, giving them control of CNN. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently called out CNN for its lack of support for Trump’s war on Iran. Hegseth said he couldn’t wait for the Ellisons to take over the channel, and Trump himself cited the CNN buyout as one of his “victories.” And that’s why we renamed the superyacht “The Trump Propagandist.” Billionaires buy the news to support their friends, politicians plunge our world into chaos and war. Then they jump on their superyachts, without accountability to anyone.
Ellison’s son, David Ellisonis currently Chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance and is an ally of the President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In December, it was reported that David Ellison had promised Trump “drastic changes” at CNN if his company succeeded in taking over parent company Warner Bros.
A month earlier, it was also reported that Larry Ellison had spoken to senior White House officials about firing two CNN hosts the president hated most.
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