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Jeff Bezos says he wants to be Donald Trump's ally
Business Insider ^ | Dec 4, 2024 | Peter Kafka

Posted on 12/04/2024 7:56:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Some people are very worried about the coming Trump administration.

Jeff Bezos is not one of them.

Or, more accurately, the world's second-richest man says he's not worried about Trump 2.0, even though Trump has singled him out in the past. And Bezos says he could be a Trump ally because he wants to help the next president cut red tape.

"I'm actually very optimistic this time around," he said at The New York Times's DealBook conference on Wednesday. "I'm very hopeful. He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. And my point of view [is], if I can help him do that, I'm going to help him. Because we do have too much regulation in this country."

Bezos also took pains to paint Trump as someone who evolved over the past few years.

"What I've seen so far is that he is calmer than he was first time," he told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin. "More confident, more settled."

Bezos joins a line of business leaders — including many of his peers in tech — who have gone out of their way to say nice things about Trump in public following his election win. It's a marked contrast from the reception Trump got after his first successful election.

It's possible Bezos really does feel good about Trump's second term. "I've had a lot of success in life not being cynical," he said Wednesday.

On the other hand, Bezos would certainly be happier if he didn't have to spend the next four years worried about problems Trump could pose for many of his interests. That includes Amazon, which he no longer runs day-to-day but still accounts for the overwhelming majority of his net worth; Blue Origin, his rocket company that competes with Trump ally Elon Musk's SpaceX;

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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1 posted on 12/04/2024 7:56:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

bezos just doesn’t want his amazon monopoly broken up ... period ...


2 posted on 12/04/2024 7:58:31 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: MinorityRepublican

That Elon Musk dude is really, really smart.


3 posted on 12/04/2024 7:59:30 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

will Mark Cuban be next?? LOL!!


4 posted on 12/04/2024 8:00:25 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Jeff finally figured out which way the wind is blowing.

Blow it out your Obama, Jeffy.


5 posted on 12/04/2024 8:04:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
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6 posted on 12/04/2024 8:05:04 PM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: chief lee runamok

NO, and HELL NO!


7 posted on 12/04/2024 8:10:29 PM PST by princess leah ( )
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To: catnipman
He does not want his government subsidy to go away or his government contracts.
8 posted on 12/04/2024 8:12:21 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not everyone is as dumb as Joy Reid and Whoopi Goldberg.


9 posted on 12/04/2024 8:12:42 PM PST by nwrep
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To: MinorityRepublican

No escuches, pres Trump-es una trampa-Bezos is not trustworthy in the least...


10 posted on 12/04/2024 8:18:14 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe Jane Fonda will want a job in the Veterans Administration, too.


11 posted on 12/04/2024 8:24:36 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t recall if Bezos is a front for the CIA, NSA or something else such as ‘Five Eyes’, but he is just another DS facade, a confection ….


12 posted on 12/04/2024 8:24:51 PM PST by dodger
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The world’s richest person, not on paper or stock options but in real tangible personal wealth isn’t Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, it’s Kim Jong Un. He owns an entire medium sized country in East Asia, every person in it, and every blade of grass. No other despot or dictator claims or holds such absolute dominion. Worth trillions at fair market value.


13 posted on 12/04/2024 8:25:27 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump is a minor leaguer financially compared to Bezos, Musk, Gates, etc. Musk helped with X when needed, and he seems to call his own tune. It is good that a guy like that who makes his billions largely through genius has a role (yes, I know about the gov. subsidies ... not his idea). You don’t want the executive branch overrun with them, especially the ones who are primarily protecting their own financial interests and only jump on board AFTER Trump wins.


14 posted on 12/04/2024 8:28:29 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Uhhh .... Jeff ...

May I call you Jeff?

You own this putrid little leftist blog called the Washington Post. You want to be Trump’s ally? How about turning your little blog into an absolute paragon of honest, objective, intelligent journalism? You’d probably have to fire the entire staff of writers and editors ... and replace them with intelligent people who studied and are legitimate experts in the various subject they report on ...

But you’re a smart man, Jeff.

I know you can do it.


15 posted on 12/04/2024 8:29:18 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Jeff, what your company did to Parker is not something I will forget.

You should have that done to you and your business.


16 posted on 12/04/2024 8:35:14 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bezos is CIA Deepstate Tool.


17 posted on 12/04/2024 8:35:31 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The ACLU's Chase Strangio, a woman with a beard, argued that two-year-olds should be castrated.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Parler, that is.


18 posted on 12/04/2024 8:35:41 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Success has many friends. His past critics … from media to business are coming crawling to him.


19 posted on 12/04/2024 8:47:10 PM PST by libh8er
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah I bet Putin isn’t too poor as well...


20 posted on 12/04/2024 8:47:37 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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