by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2025 Real World News
First, Jeff Bezos killed The Washington Post's endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. That was enough to send many a WaPo staffer to the edge of the cliffs of insanity.
What Bezos did next sent many over the cliffs. His company, Amazon, donated $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural fund and Bezos attended the Jan. 20 inauguration.
“If you look at the inauguration, look at the people that were on that stage,” Trump said. “Here was a who’s who of a world that was totally against me the first time."
He added, “It’s a much different presidency. I have much more support.”
Trump said that Bezos told him what many thinking people already are well aware of: Washington Post staffers are "crazy people."
“They actually did a couple of bad articles on him (Bezos),” Trump said in an interview with OutKick’s Clay Travis. “He said, ‘This is crazy, I lose my fortune running this thing and they (Post newsroom employees), you know, they’re out of control.’ These people are crazy. They’re crazy people. They’re out of control.”
“(Bezos is) a good guy,” Trump added. “I didn’t really know him in the first term. I mean, it’s such a difference between now and the first time.”
Bezos again sent the WaPo rage meter spinning out of control last month when he announced the news outlet would be changing the content of its opinion pages.
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said. “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
“I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America,” Bezos added in a post to X. “I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.”
Trump said he thinks the changes coming to the Post are “great” and that he spent time talking to Bezos about them and that the Post's owner is “really trying to be more fair.”
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