Jeff Bezos says he will try to talk Trump out of idea that the news media is an ‘enemy’
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Despite feuding with Trump during his last administration, Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about a second Trump administration and suggested he even wants to help the incoming president.
Jeff Bezos hopes Donald Trump has changed. Speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, the billionaire Amazon founder and Washington Post owner said he hopes that a second Trump administration will look more favorably on the press, saying he will “try to talk [Trump] out of” the idea that journalists are an enemy. “I don’t think the press is the enemy,” Bezos told Andrew Ross Sorkin. “The press is not the enemy, let’s go persuade him of this.” Despite feuding with Trump during his last administration, Bezos said he was “very optimistic” about a second Trump administration and suggested he even wants to help the incoming president. “I am very optimistic this time around, I am very hopeful, he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation, and if I can help him do that, I am going to help him,” he said of Trump. During Trump’s first administration, he famously railed against Bezos and Amazon. Trump called the Post “The Fake News Washington Post” and derided it as Amazon’s “chief lobbyist.” The Trump administration also blocked Amazon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, which was widely seen at the time as Trump seeking retribution against Bezos over the Post’s reporting.
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