MyPillow, mostly of the remaining marketers regularly featured on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, is laying off more than 100 employees not even a year after the company’s founder praised President Donald Trump for creating a “booming economy. ”
In a statement to HuffPost, Mike Lindell, inventor and CEO of MyPillow, told us via email that he’s in the process of launching an “ online store for entrepreneurs and inventors to sell their products. ”
Lindell said that while he values “ every single one of my workers, ” “ this is specifically what is best at this time for future years of MyPillow and also to prepare for the start associated with MyStore. com. ”
This particular move from Lindell arrives significantly less than a year following a 06 2018 op-ed he composed for the Duluth News-Tribune in which he celebrated Trump’s financial plans in a bit titled, “Rest easy, Minnesota; Trump is usually successful for us. ”
The spokesperson for Lindell informed HuffPost via e-mail that “the layoffs have nothing to do with what he talked about in that op-ed. ”
MyPillow often advertises on Fox News and has done so a whopping 1, 100 occasions since Jan. 1 . As reporter Jordan Uhl notes, that’s “ more than almost every other advertiser, including ramping up advertisements on costly primetime shows that saw advertisers leave due to rhetoric. ”