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Trump praises Bezos for changes at Washington Post: ‘He’s trying to do a real job’
The recent changes Jeff Bezos has instituted at The Washington Post have captured the attention of President Donald Trump, who praised the newspaper owner’s efforts. In a new interview on the Sunday news program “Full Measure,” Trump evoked Bezos’ name while discussing how he views the media and big tech. “I’ve gotten to know him, and I think he’s trying to do a real job,” Trump said (starting at the 14:20 mark in the video above). “Jeff Bezos is trying to do a real job with The Washington Post, and that wasn’t happening before.” Trump said he doesn’t think the… Read More
The recent changes Jeff Bezos has instituted at The Washington Post have captured the attention of President Donald Trump, who praised the newspaper owner’s efforts.
In a new interview on the Sunday news program “Full Measure,” Trump evoked Bezos’ name while discussing how he views the media and big tech.
“I’ve gotten to know him, and I think he’s trying to do a real job,” Trump said (starting at the 14:20 mark in the video above). “Jeff Bezos is trying to do a real job with The Washington Post, and that wasn’t happening before.”
Trump said he doesn’t think the media’s overall treatment of him has changed so far in his second term, but he is seeing a shift among tech giants.
Since the election, Bezos has been among those expressing a willingness to work with the Trump administration. And the Amazon founder was among tech leaders who attended the presidential inauguration, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
“I had Facebook against me, I had Instagram. I had everybody against me,” Trump said. “The whole world was against me — 97% of it was just horrible, and it was really crooked, it was really dishonest.”
Bezos bought the Post in 2013, and during Trump’s first term he and the newspaper clashed with the president as Trump threatened antitrust action against Amazon.
Last month, Bezos shook up the paper’s opinion section, announcing that it would focus on supporting and defending what he called “two pillars” — personal liberties and free markets. That action came in the wake of his decision last fall to end the newspaper’s tradition of endorsing candidates for president — including a reported spiking of the Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Both moves cost the Post subscribers, staff resignations and a wave of backlash. Former Post editor Marty Baron wrote in The Atlantic this month that Bezos fulfilled his promise to the paper and its readers for a long while, but has since “faltered badly.”
