Did President Trump fire Elmo when he attempted to allocate funds to the public media?

LinkedIn post allegedly written by cute red puppets - Elmo said he was "recently fired for cutting the federal budget" and was all the rage on social media. A user's post on X about Elmo's so-called layoff notices has exceeded 2 million.

But, as you may suspect, the so-called Elmo Post doesn’t originate from Sesame Workshops, a nonprofit that produces “Sesame Street.” The post appears to be from an unverified "Elmo on Sesame Street" account that is no longer available on LinkedIn.

Sesame Seminar spokesperson confirmed type This post is not from a Sesame Workshop account, it was deleted by LinkedIn.

According to the version circulating online, “Elmo” wrote: “HI LinkedIn, unfortunately, Elmo was recently fired for cutting the federal budget. Elmo has worked in Sesame Street for 45 years.

The post continues: "Elmo will miss his friends Big Bird, Cookies, Ernie, Bate, Ernie, Abby, Abby, Grover, Grover, and more. They make Elmo's days better. Elmo is looking for his next opportunity. Elmo takes on a full-time or freelance role."

The “Elmo” post on LinkedIn also said: “If you want to help Elmo and his friends, urge your local MPs to save the public media.”

Trump issued an executive order last week blocking all federal funds to PBS and NPR, accusing them of producing "biased and partisan news coverage." In response, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger said in a statement: “The blatantly illegal executive order issued by the President in the late night threatens our ability to serve the U.S. public in the past 50 years of education programs. We are currently exploring all options to allow PBS to continue serving our membership station and all Americans.”

Elmo has been a Conservative Party’s efforts to cut public media funding. "We are not serious hearings, but attacking NPR and PBS here," Robert Garcia (D-California) said at a congressional hearing called by House Republicans in March.

In his inquiry, Garcia evoked Senator Joseph McCarthy's efforts in the 1940s and 1950s to eradicate the roots of suspicious communists in the U.S. government. Garcia asked Kerger, who was called to testify before the House of Representatives to the Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee: “The American people want to know: is Elmo now, or is he a member of the Communist Party of America?

Kerger smiled and replied, "No." Garcia followed, "Are you sure, Ms. Kerger? Because he is obviously red." Kerger said, "Well, he's a puppet, but no." Garcia also asked the biscuit monster if it was a "silent pro-Chick voter," Kerger said, "Cookies are sometimes food."

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