Jeff Bezos told President Trump that his staff at the Washington Post is 'out of hand' and 'crazy', while Amazon owner tries to ensure that the selection newspaper is 'fairer' for the president after he bought it.
Bezos, who was often a thorn in Trump's side during his first words, plans to re-make the post in a Maga-friendly outlet.
He refused to allow the newspaper to make an approval for the president and has established much stricter rules on the opinion page of the post in recent months.
Trump said he recently got to know Bezos and said he expected that they can get along great during his second term.
“He is a good guy. I didn't really know him in the first term. I mean, it's such a difference between now and the first time. '
Trump said that he 'extensively' spoke with Bezos about how the newspaper did his best to protect Joe Biden during his term.
However, he added that he has it at the Bezos authority that they try to be 'more fairer', but that he had it with his left -loving staff at Washington Post, especially after they had run a number of negative articles about him.
“He said:” This is crazy, I lose my fortune that this thing runs and she knows, they are out of hand. “These people are crazy. They are crazy people. They are out of hand. '
Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes that his staff on the Washington Post is 'crazy' because the owner of the leading liberal newspaper works to ensure that he is 'fairer' for the president
“He is a good guy. I didn't really know him in the first term. I mean, it's such a difference between now and the first time, “said Trump about Bezos
Trump mentioned the appearance of Bezos in his inauguration in January as a sign that much of the technical elite had shifted to him during his second time.
“If you look at the inauguration, look at the people who were on that stage, here was a WHO's who of a world that was completely against me for the first time,” he told Outkick.
Dailymail.com has contacted the Washington Post and a spokesperson for Bezos for comment.
Bezos has slowly run away from the liberal tendencies of his newspaper in the midst of his budding friendship with the president and his allies.
The Amazon boss has recently started playing a more active role in operations compared to when he first took course in 2013.
He led to anger under his liberal staff after he had dumped a planned approval for Kamala Harris before last year's elections.
In November he fired the old political editor of the post at the heels of the Donald Trump elections.
While he returned earlier this month, he ran back from running a $ 115,000 front page advertisement on Elon Musk.
Trump added that he has it at the Bezos authority that they try to be 'fairer', but that he has had it with his left-loving Washington post-staff, especially after they had run a number of negative articles about him
Jeff Bezos went with fiancé Lauren Sancez to the inauguration of Donald Trump
The decision came after Bezos was prominently present during the ceremony of the 47th president, after he announced his plans to donate $ 1 million to the inaugural fund of the incoming president.
Bezos and his fiancé Sanchez had previously traveled to Mar-A-Lago for dinner with the then elected president.
The Amazon boss, who owns the outlet, said he concluded a traditional, wide opinions that wanted to treat all views. “
He also taught earlier opinion editor David Shipley after he refused to board the new regime.
“We are going to write every day to support and defend two pillars: personal freedoms and free markets,” Bezos wrote on X on Wednesday.
'We will of course also deal with other topics, but points of view that oppose those pillars will be published by others.
'There was a time when a newspaper, especially a newspaper that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring a broad opinion section of the reader every morning who wanted to deal with all the views. Nowadays the internet does that work. '
Dozens of readers have already started canceling their subscription in protest during the move.
However, the decision was praised by Elon Musk, who wrote 'Bravo Jeff Bezos' above a message about X about the news.
“I am from America and for America, and proud to be like that,” Bezos added. 'Our country did not come here by being typical.
'And a large part of the success of America has been freedom in the economic empire and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical – it minimizes coercion – and practical – it stimulates creativity, invention and prosperity. '
The Chief Executive of the Will Lewis function told the staff that the changes “were not about the cladding with a political party,” reports the New York Times.
“This is about being crystal clear about what we stand for as a newspaper,” Lewis wrote in a memo. “This is a crucial part of serving as a leading news publication throughout America and for all Americans.”
