They are there are supplicants ... President Trump broke the oligarchs and they surrendered. They said, 'we'll take off any constraints' ... I view this as September 1945.
Bezos will be seated front and center at the inauguration dais along with other VIP guests and fellow tech executives Zuckerberg, X owner Elon Musk, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
Back then, Trump frequently rebuked The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, for the paper's coverage of his presidency. The conflict escalated in 2019 when the Pentagon awarded a $10 billion contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon. The company later accused Trump of using the military budget to pursue a personal agenda.
The dynamic shifted in the 2024 election, when Bezos blocked the Post from endorsing Vice President Harris for president. The move was viewed as an attempt to curry favor with Trump, especially as Bezos' other company, Blue Origin, has a multi-billion dollar contract with NASA.