If you’ve watched Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight at all lately, you’ve almost certainly seen ads for MyPillow. As other advertisers have fled, MyPillow’s Trump-loving founder and CEO Mike Lindell has doubled down. Unfortunately, that investment would not seem to have paid off as we learned today that the company laid off 150 employees.
Contemptor has more:
In the wake of a sustained and debilitating advertiser boycott of Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson following the conservative host saying immigrants make America “poorer and dirtier,” MyPillow has emerged as Tucker Carlson Tonight’s most reliable sponsor. With dozens of companies pulling their ads, MyPillow has regularly run multiple 2-minute ads per broadcast to help fill Carlson’s dwindling ad load.
These layoffs, meanwhile, come just months after Lindell boasted that the president’s tax cuts created an economic boom that made it easier for business owners to hire workers and pay them more.
Watch a report on the layoffs below, via Vox’s Aaron Rupar
(Lindell image via screen grab)
My Pillow will soon become Goodbye Pillow.
This would seem to be a contradiction for Lindell, who has tried to play the Right Wing card about how wonderful this economy supposedly is for everyone, and how he thinks the Pence White House is just a gift to the business community and to everyday shoppers. Except that he’s unable to sell his pillows, and I’d guess that part of the reason is that his middle class customers have been facing higher tax bills and more uncertainty in the “gig economy”. And there was that issue with the Pence Treasury Dept having the IRS goose everyone’s withholding and thus generate large bills for many people or at least wipe out their usual refunds. So it doesn’t sound like everything is peaches and cream for Lindell’s customers, which would indicate it’s not peaches and cream for Lindell – and thus he’s had to fire a bunch of his employees.
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Lindell to admit his mistakes here. But the fact that he’s having to tighten his belt in the midst of this wonderful Right Wing Pence presidency speaks volumes by itself.