Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump haven’t all the time gotten along well, but after the previous president survived an assassination attempt over the weekend, Bezos decided to bury the hatchet.
Hours after Trump was injured in a shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the Amazon founder praised him in a post on X.
“Our former president demonstrated tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight. I am so grateful for his safety and so sad for the victims and their families,” Bezos wrote.
Bezos was one in every of several top business leaders who voiced their support for the previous president after the shooting. Founder and investor of Pershing Square Bill Ackman officially endorsed Trump in an extended post on Saturday. Tesla boss Elon Musk also approved Trump and wished him well. In a post on X, he added: “The last time America had such a strong candidate was Theodore Roosevelt.” Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon also sent his condolences to Trump on Monday.
But Donald Trump has not all the time gotten along along with his fellow upper-class residents, and even before Bezos called for peace over the weekend, he was one in every of the previous president’s favorite targets.
Trump has often criticized Bezos regarding X, especially for owning The Washington Postwhich he bought in 2013 and wherein he published articles and opinion pieces critical of the previous president. In a series of tweets from 2015, Trump wrote made an attempt in Bezos’ ownership of postand said he only owned the newspaper to avoid taxes. He also called the newspaper the “Amazon Washington Post,” despite the fact that Bezos, not Amazon, owns the medium.
The @WashingtonPost loses money (a deduction) and provides the owner @JeffBezos Power to cheat the general public with low taxation @Amazon! Large tax haven
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 7 December 2015
In 2017, when Trump was president, Bezos, then CEO of Amazon, wrote in a private email to employees to make clear that the corporate not supportive Trump’s ban on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. Later that 12 months, Trump invited Bezos, together with other CEOs, to the White House to four-hour meeting on technology in government.
In 2019, Trump had a brand new name for Bezos, “Jeff Bozo,” which he used to make fun the second richest man on this planet after National Investigator Tabloid newspaper reported on Bezos’ alleged affair along with his current girlfriend Lauren Sánchez, a former presenter of “So You Think You Can Dance”.
“I am so sorry to hear the news that Jeff Bozo has been taken down by a competitor whose reporting, as far as I know, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobby newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post.”
After this weekend’s rally, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also wished Trump all the very best in a Post on X.
“It is hard to digest what happened in Pennsylvania today. Simply horrific. My thoughts are with the families of the victims. I am glad President Trump is safe and hope he recovers quickly,” he wrote.
