• Jeff Bezos congratulated Donald Trump on winning the presidential election.

• They’ve traded a lot of barbs over the years.

• Here is the history of Bezos and Trump’s relationship.

Jeff Bezos on Wednesday He congratulated Donald Trump He spoke of a “remarkable political comeback and a decisive victory” in the 2024 presidential election, wishing the president-elect “success in governing and uniting the America we all love.”

Following the attempted assassination of Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania in July 2024, Bezos takes a nearly nine-month break from XFormerly known as Twitter, he wrote: “Our former President literally showed tremendous grace and courage under fire tonight. I am so grateful for his safety and so sorry for the victims and their families.”

The billionaire Amazon founder and Trump argue from time to time. In 2016, Bezos said Trump wanted to lock down Hillary Clinton or refuse to accept defeat in this election. “It is eroding our democracy from edge to edge.”

“One of the things that makes this country so great is that we are allowed to criticize and scrutinize our elected leaders,” Bezos said at the time.

“The appropriate thing for a presidential candidate to do is to say, ‘I’m running for the highest office in the world, please check me out.'” “That’s not what we’re seeing. Trying to alienate the media and threatening retaliation and retaliation, which he has done in many cases, is simply not appropriate.”

After Trump’s election that year, Bezos was one of several tech leaders to meet with the president-elect At a peak that Bezos later described as “very productive.” Introducing himself at the meeting, Bezos added that he was “extremely excited about the possibilities that this could be innovation management.”

Trump and Amazon

While campaigning for the 2016 presidential election, Trump says Amazon will face ‘this kind of problems’ if he becomes president.

in 2017 he tweeted He said the company was “causing great harm to tax-paying retailers” and “hurting towns, cities and states across the United States.”

He repeated similar sentiments the following year. I’m saying this Amazon is driving small retailers into bankruptcy.

Trump also said many times: Amazon should pay more for USPS deliveries.

“Why is it that the United States Post Office, which loses billions of dollars a year, charges Amazon and others so little to deliver its packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?” he tweeted in 2017. “They should be charged MUCH MORE!”

in 2019 Amazon files federal complaint challenging Defense Department decision awarding a $10 billion contract to Microsoft to move sensitive data to a cloud server instead of Amazon Web Services.

The company said in the complaint that Trump influenced its decision to “pursue his own personal and political goals” and harm Bezos, his “perceived political enemy.” Amazon said Trump made “repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks” about the company and Bezos, who was still CEO at the time.

in 2021 Department of Defense Canceled the contract with Microsoft and announced a multi-vendor agreement to solicit bids from Microsoft and AWS as “the only Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) capable of meeting the Ministry’s requirements.”

Trump and the Washington Post

Trump has repeatedly criticized Washington PostBezos owns it.

In 2019, Trump harshly criticized Bezos and the Post while discussing Bezos’ divorce. MacKenzie Scott.

“I am very sorry to hear the news that Jeff Bozo has been taken down by a rival whose reporting, I understand, is much more accurate than that of the lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post,” Trump wrote to X. You will soon be handed over to better and more responsible hands!”

For the first time in decades, the newspaper did not publish a statement supporting a presidential candidate in 2024. Bezos reportedly intervened to block Kamala Harris’ confirmation This was already prepared.

Bezos later wrote an op-ed defending the paper’s decision to decline to support it: He says the endorsements “created the perception of bias” and “did nothing to change the scale of the election.”

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