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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos branded The Washington Post the worst bet of his career during a private meal with President Donald Trump weeks before he carved up the newsroom.<\/p>\n

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The billionaire vented on the paper at a December 2024 dinner, according to the New York Post, citing the forthcoming book \u201cRegime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,\u201d authored by New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman. \u201cThe people there are terrible,\u201d Bezos told Trump, per the Post. He griped that the publication\u2019s leadership ignored his guidance. \u201cThey don\u2019t listen. My other companies, they listen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Notably, The Washington Post has suffered significant financial difficulties in recent years \u2014 a point of contention for Bezos, especially with the business side of his newspaper property. In 2024, The Washington Post lost more than $100 million.<\/p>\n

Trump used the same dinner to air his own complaints, the New York Post reported. \u201cThis Washington Post is really unfair. You\u2019ve got to take better care,\u201d he told Bezos. The two men landed on common ground despite different grievances. (RELATED: \u2018Difficult Decisions Have Been Taken\u2019: Washington Post\u2019s CEO And Publisher Resign After Wide-Ranging Staff Reduction)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A murkier motive surfaced in Swan and Haberman\u2019s casting of the conversation. \u201cIn Trump\u2019s telling, Bezos told him he had lost half his friends over the investment,\u201d the authors wrote, according to the New York Post. Bezos disputed that account to others, saying confidants had pushed him to sell rather than that friendships had collapsed.<\/p>\n

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Trump admitted he once loathed the Amazon chief over the paper\u2019s coverage. \u201cHe said they write stories about him. And I didn\u2019t believe him the first time, first term. And I hated him for it,\u201d Trump recalled in the New York Post. \u201cAnd then I believed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dinner followed the Post\u2019s decision to skip a 2024 endorsement, which Bezos defended in an October op-ed. \u201cPresidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,\u201d he wrote. Opinion editor David Shipley resigned after Bezos redirected the section toward personal liberties and free markets, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

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Bezos gutted roughly a third of the staff in February, NPR reported. Publisher Will Lewis exited days later. Acting chief Jeff D\u2019Onofrio, a former Tumblr and Google executive, now runs the paper, according to Axios.<\/p>\n

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