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Posted on 06/18/2026 4:34:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos called the Washington Post his worst investment in a conversation with President Trump months before gutting the newsroom, according to a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman.
"The people there are terrible," Bezos told Trump over dinner in December 2024, according to an excerpt obtained by The Post ahead of the June 23 release of "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump."
"They don't listen. My other companies, they listen," Bezos said, focusing his ire at the business side of the publication after losing more than $100 million that year.
About two months after the dinner, Bezos ordered the Washington Post's opinion pages to promote "two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" — as subscribers peeled off in protest of the paper withholding its endorsement from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Bezos this February authorized the sweeping downsizing of the celebrated Watergate paper, eliminating roughly a third of its workforce, including all staff photographers and the sports section.
Bezos' candor with Trump was described by Swan and Haberman as part of a larger effort by Big Tech titans to cozy up with the incoming president, who had spent his four years in political exile railing against what he viewed as bias by news outlets and major internet platforms.
Trump told Bezos "this Washington Post is really unfair. You've got to take better care," the book says.
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Yeah, but that is disingenuous to why he bought it.
It wasn’t an investment in profit potential, it was investment in social status with hollywood types. They love the post.
just fire every one of them, and hire people who will listen. Problem solved.
Leftists always feel entitled to their positions. A newspaper is no different than a manufacturing plant. It must make a profit, else you go out of business.
If the product doesn’t sell, then the content and quality isn’t what it should be, and people won’t buy it.
The Hollyweird crowd and the politicos in DC and environs aren’t enough to keep it in business. They must appeal to the average person on the street with balanced coverage.
WaPo is seen as a house organ of the Democrat Party then people automatically know that it is biased and one-sided. You will not get accurate reporting from them, just politically slanted propaganda, on every story right down to the human interest stories that are used as filler...................
Before they do too much damage.
Thruth be told, they do listen, just not to him.
WaPo is still living in the Woodward/Bernstein era.
That period heightened the left’s ego to nosebleed heights.
Fire them all.
The WaPo brought down Presidents. They don’t care about free markets or taking orders from anyone but the DNC.
Try finding a journalist to hire that has graduated from a leftist extremist "journalism school" who isn't a leftist extremist ignorant barbarian NAZI.
There may be one or two nationwide.
That was when their opinions mattered to the general populace. Nowadays there are a thousand sources for news and information in every city. The WaPo is just one out of many now...............
I enjoying the quiet resulting from the ouster of Ruth Marcus from WAPO. She was a screeching, no Trumping shrew. She had a lot of nerve marketing herself as a Republican.
Bezos, you made a far worse one. Wonder if you realize it yet...
The Old Guard elite Republicans, what Rush used to call ‘Country-Club Blue Bloods’ hate Trump because he represents change and they cannot stand change. They live for the status quo, where they control everything within the ‘Party’ along with the DNC. “Go along to get along.”, “Don’t upset the applecart.”...............
Mr. Bezos, I would speculate that almost all your Washington Post employees feel they are superior to you! They are smarter, understand everything, and know how to solve the World’s problem better and faster. Basically they think you are an INTERLOPER.
"They don't listen. My other companies, they listen," Bezos said
This is a surprise? A group of arrogant know-it-all academic elite leftists running a propaganda echo chamber we used to call a newspaper - Bezos is lucky they haven't reisted to the point of reducing him to room temperature.
Check
Jeff, any FReeper could have told you that before you bought. Dishonest people who lie on a massive scale are generally terrible people.
If I were Bezos, I would sell it to Elon just for fun!...................
He was a bit naïve when he bought the WaPo. He never had to interface with the people there and probably thought they were just regular folks doing their jobs. Not screaming harpies that want him and his kind dead................
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