Billionaire Republican donor Larry Ellison just got a scathing message from protesters who pulled a daring stunt involving his megayacht.
The activist group Led By Donkeys stuck a giant, painted banner reading “The Trump Propagandist” onto the side of the tech mogul’s $160 million vessel while it was moored in the posh French Riviera.
Publicizing the spectacle in a Tuesday X post, 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 came together to protest Brexit in 2018, explained Ellison’s close ties to President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video that accompanied the post.
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) March 24, 2026
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We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴☠️ pic.twitter.com/GjdGYrA1qb
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) March 24, 2026
Not only was Ellison part of the investment group that took over TikTok from China’s ByteDance, but he also used his family’s multibillion-dollar trust to back the merger between his son David Ellison’s Skydance Media and Paramount. Last month, the younger Ellison and Paramount Skydance reached a $110.9 billion deal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company.
In its video, Led By Donkeys accused Paramount Skydance of using its subsidiary CBS News to push a “pro-war” agenda in its coverage of the conflict in Iran and warned it would soon have the same sway over CNN.