Jeff Bezos, laminitis and enforcement president of Amazon, takes the signifier during The New York Times' yearly DealBook Summit, astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center successful New York City connected Dec. 4, 2024.
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President Donald Trump met with Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos astatine the White House past week, CNBC has learned.
The gathering betwixt Trump and Bezos, 1 of the world's richest men, lasted for much than an hour, according to 2 radical acquainted with the substance who asked not to beryllium named due to the fact that the speech was private.
Amazon declined to remark connected the meeting. A spokesperson for Bezos didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.
The quality and nonstop timing of the sojourn couldn't beryllium learned.
A Gulfstream G700 backstage pitchy linked to Bezos landed successful Dulles, Virginia, extracurricular Washington, connected July 14 earlier taking disconnected the adjacent day, according to Jack Sweeney, a programmer who tracks formation information from jets owned by Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others.
Bezos, who besides owns rocket institution Blue Origin, has cozied up to Trump during his 2nd word successful the White House. Trump often hurled insults astatine Bezos during his archetypal term, mostly due to the fact that of the Amazon founder's ownership of The Washington Post.
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Bezos joined a swath of tech CEOs connected signifier astatine Trump's inauguration successful January aft donating $1 cardinal to his inaugural fund.
The Trump medication praised Bezos for his determination to revamp the Post's editorial pages to absorption connected "personal liberties and escaped markets."
In April, Trump said Bezos, who stepped down arsenic Amazon's CEO successful 2021, was "terrific" and "a bully guy" aft the billionaire assured Trump that the e-commerce elephantine had nary plans to show tariff-related surcharges connected its website.
More recently, Bezos has reportedly sought to capitalize connected the melodramatic falling-out betwixt Trump and Musk, who spent much than $250 million to assistance Trump triumph a 2nd White House word and antecedently led the government-slashing inaugural called the Department of Government Efficiency.
Bezos competes with Musk, who is the CEO of SpaceX, done Blue Origin and Project Kuiper, Amazon's low-Earth orbit outer net venture.
After Trump and Musk's narration soured, Bezos spoke with Trump connected respective occasions, portion Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp traveled to the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing radical acquainted with the matter.
The conversations centered successful portion connected authorities contracts, according to the Journal.
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