Jeff Bezos Reportedly Told Trump the Washington Post Was His ‘Worst Investment’ Before Staff Cuts
The dinner came as the Post lost more than $100 million and later cut one-third of its staff, according to the new book.
- During a December 2024 dinner with President Trump, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos called The Washington Post his "worst investment," complaining that staff were "out of control," according to a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman.
- Bezos commiserated with Trump over the newspaper's business side after it lost more than $100 million that year, contrasting the Post with his other companies. "My other companies, they listen," Bezos said.
- In February 2025, Bezos announced the Post's opinion section would focus on "personal liberties and free markets," prompting opinion editor David Shipley to resign. The paper then laid off one-third of its staff in February 2026, eliminating sports, books, and foreign bureaus.
- Subscribers canceled in protest after the Post withheld a presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. Bezos defended the decision, writing, "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election."
- Trump told the authors he previously believed Bezos personally controlled the Post's coverage during his first administration. "He said they write stories about him. And I didn't believe him the first time, first term. And I hated him for it," Trump said.
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New Book Reveals Jeff Bezos Told President Trump Buying Washington Post Was His ‘Worst Investment’ and ‘People There Are Terrible’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Margaret Flavin
Jeff Bezos / New York Times Book Summit According to a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is not thrilled with his decision to buy The Washington Post. Bezos bought The Post, and some related assets, in 2013 from the Graham family for $250 million. More than a decade later, the book claims he told President Trump, dur…
Report: Bezos trashed his own newspaper in conversation with Trump · American Wire News
Months before he downsized the Washington Post, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos privately told President Donald Trump at a December 2024 dinner that buying the Post had been his worst investment decision ever. Why? Because the Post’s elitist, uppity, bougie, holier-than-thou staff were too full of themselves to listen to the successful boss man. “The people there are terrible. They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen,” he told the president,…
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