The Hill: Bezos: Incumbent on media to 'persuade' Trump press 'not the enemy'

[Dennis Donovan]

The Hill - Bezos: Incumbent on media to ‘persuade’ Trump press ‘not the enemy’

by Dominick Mastrangelo - 12/05/24 9:44 AM ET



Jeff Bezos, the billionaire tech mogul and owner of The Washington Post, says he views it as a responsibility of the mainstream media to convince President-elect Trump the press is not his enemy.

“I’m going to try and talk him out of that idea,” Bezos said at the New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. “I don’t think the press is the enemy.”

“You’ve probably grown in the last two years, he has too,” he told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin during an interview. “Let’s go persuade him of this. I don’t think he’s going to see it the same way, but maybe I’ll be wrong.”

Bezos said Trump today strikes him as “calmer” than he was during his first campaign for the White House, and “more confident and settle.”

The billionaire’s comments come just weeks after he sparked widespread outrage with a decision to kill an editorial endorsing Vice President Harris that was set to be published by the Post.

Bezos at the time defended the decision by saying presidential endorsements erode trust in media and dismissed suggestions he was capitulating to Trump to advance his business interests.

/snip

Oh, just fuck off, Jeff. BTW, why does everything in your orbit have to look like a penis? Your rocket, your Amazon logo, even your stupid head!


Tell me this isn't supposed to be a dick!

[Irish_Dem]

1. Smug SOBs.

[Cherrycheeks]

2. The only reply I can think of...

For the comments in your last paragraph is.. Lol! Exactly!

[dchill]

3. "Tell me this isn't supposed to be a dick!"

Sorry - no can do.

[dchill]

4. Get out of the news business, Jeff.

You're utterly unqualified.

[dgauss]

5. Bezos is either full of it or really stupid here.

He's acting is if Trump has some misunderstanding about what the press does and that can be corrected. Trump doesn't actually believe the press "is the enemy" anymore than he believes he won the 2000 election. It's just tactical gaslighting.

Trump understands perfectly well that the press can expose his lies and criminality so he needs to discredit the press so his base doesn't believe any of that. Incredibly f'ing obvious.

So this "let's get together and make Trump realize that we're not really the enemy" is a comically stupid thing for a supposedly smart guy to think. It would be like saying "let's get together with Trump and walk through the evidence about the 2000 election so he can understand that he didn't actually win."

More likely Bezos is just playing some angle here.

[Tickle]

6. It's interesting how different things feel this time around.

Trump seems to have gained a level of popularity that spans across people of various backgrounds, colors, shapes, and sizes. For me, though, he comes across as more intimidating and threatening than before. Yet, it’s striking to see athletes—football players and soccer players alike—embracing what’s being called the "Trump dance." It’s a fascinating, if not perplexing, shift. What are your thoughts on this?

[Dennis Donovan]

8. He's kept his mouth shut for a month

W/ the exception of his Thanksgiving message referring to half of the country as "Radical Left Lunatics" he's been relatively quiet.

[Cartoonist]

10. We are becoming the Eloi

No more fighting back. When the horns sound, we will go to our work stations and do what the Morlocks tell us.

[Mike 03]

7. Dipshit's got it backwards

It's incumbent upon Trump to demonstrate to the media and people of the U.S. that he is not an "enemy of the people."

Bezos has turned out to be such a huge disappointment. When someone with that much money and power is groveling and taking the side of a corrupt autocrat, it sets the worst example possible. Cowardly POS.

[spanone]

9. This has to be Borowitz or the Onion.

[lark]

11. Fuck Bezos /NYT and their pandering crap.

tsf is the total enemy of America and their lies will not persuade me otherwise. I will not make nice with someones who are determined to fuck us over and kill off the seniors so he and the other fascist rich can more easily steal our SS $$$.

[tanyev]

12. The only thing Donny is more confident about is that this time he'll get to be a dictator.

STFU, Bezos.