Protesters Slap ‘Trump Propagandist’ On Billionaire Donor Larry Ellison’s Megayacht | EUROtoday

Billionaire Republican donor Larry Ellison simply obtained a scathing message from protesters who pulled a daring stunt involving his megayacht.

The activist group Led By Donkeys caught a large, painted banner studying “The Trump Propagandist” onto the facet of the tech mogul’s $160 million vessel whereas it was moored within the posh French Riviera.

Publicizing the spectacle in a Tuesday X submit, the group wrote, “We tracked down the super yacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it.”

Led By Donkeys, a British political group that first got here collectively to protest Brexit in 2018, defined Ellison’s shut ties to President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video that accompanied the submit.

Not solely was Ellison a part of the funding group that took over TikTookay from China’s ByteDance, however he additionally used his household’s multibillion-dollar belief to again the merger between his son David Ellison’s Skydance Media and Paramount. Last month, the youthful Ellison and Paramount Skydance reached a $110.9 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s guardian firm.

In its video, Led By Donkeys accused Paramount Skydance of utilizing its subsidiary CBS News to push a “pro-war” agenda in its protection of the battle in Iran and warned it could quickly have the identical sway over CNN.

Though the Warner Bros. deal is but to be finalized, Trump’s allies have already began celebrating the truth that CNN, a perpetual thorn within the president’s facet, will likely be underneath the management of a few of his strongest associates.

Warning folks how harmful that could possibly be, Led By Donkeys narrates in its video, “The billionaires are buying up the news to support their friends, the politicians pitching our world into chaos and war. Then they jump onto their super yachts, accountable to nobody.”

The elder Ellison co-founded the tech large Oracle and has an estimated web price of $393 billion. After a surge in Oracle’s inventory value final October, he briefly outranked Elon Musk because the wealthiest man on the planet.