Jeff Bezos unfiltered rant to Trump about crazy staff at his newspaper revealed
Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are out of control and crazy as Amazon owner tried to make sure the marquee newspaper is more fair to the president after he purchased it.
Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are out of control and crazy as Amazon owner tried to make sure the marquee newspaper is more fair to the president after he purchased it.
Bezos, who was often a thorn in Trumps side during his first terms, has set to remake the Post into a MAGA-friendly outlet.
He refused to allow the paper to make an endorsement for president and has set much stricter rules on the Posts opinion page in recent months.
Trump said that hes gotten to know Bezos recently and said that he expects them to get along great during his second term.
He is a good guy. I didnt really know him in the first term. I mean, its such a difference between now and the first time.
Trump said that he talked to Bezos at length about how the paper went out of its way to protect Joe Biden during his term.
However, he added that hes got it on Bezos authority that theyre trying to be more fair but that hes had it with his left-leaning Washington Post staff, especially after theyd run some negative articles about him.
He said, This is crazy, I lose my fortune running this thing and they, you know, theyre out of control. These people are crazy. Theyre crazy people. Theyre out of control.
Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are crazy as the owner of the leading liberal paper works to make sure hes more fair to the president
He is a good guy. I didnt really know him in the first term. I mean, its such a difference between now and the first time, Trump said of Bezos
Trump cited Bezos appearance at his inauguration in January as a sign that many of the tech elite had shifted toward him on his second go around.
If you look at the inauguration, look at the people that were on that stage, here was a whos who of a world that was totally against me the first time, he told Outkick.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Washington Post and a spokesperson for Bezos for comment.
Bezos has been slowly edging away from his papers liberal leanings amid his budding friendship with the president and his allies.
The Amazon boss has begun playing a more active role in operations lately compared to when he first took the helm back in 2013.
He prompted fury among his liberal staff after he ditched a planned endorsement for Kamala Harris before last years election.
In November, he fired the Posts long-time politics editor on the heels of Donald Trumps election.
While earlier this month, he backed out of running a $115,000 front page advert targeting Elon Musk.
Trump added that hes got it on Bezos authority that theyre trying to be more fair but that hes had it with his left-leaning Washington Post staff, especially after theyd run some negative articles about him
Jeff Bezos went with fiancee Lauren Sancez to the inauguration of Donald Trump
The decision came after Bezos was featured prominently at the 47th presidents swearing-in ceremony, after he announced his plans too donate $1 million to the incoming presidents inaugural fund.
Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez had earlier traveled to Mar-a-Lago for dinner with the then president-elect.
The Amazon boss, who owns the outlet, said he is ditching a traditional, broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.
He has also axed previous opinion editor David Shipley after he declined to get on board with the new regime.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets, Bezos wrote on X on Wednesday.
Well cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the readers doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
Scores of readers have already began angrily cancelling their subscription in protest over the move.
However the decision has been lauded by Elon Musk, who wrote Bravo Jeff Bezos above a post on X about the news.
I am of America and for America, and proud to be so, Bezos added. Our country did not get here by being typical.
And a big part of Americas success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
The Posts chief executive Will Lewis told staff that the changes were not about siding with any political party, the New York Times reports.
This is about being crystal clear about what we stand for as a newspaper, Lewis wrote in a memo. Doing this is a critical part of serving as a premier news publication across America and for all Americans.