With apparently little else to do, President Trump tonight mocked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as “Jeff Bozo” while singing the praises of the National Enquirer.
“So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post,” Trump tweeted. “Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2019
Trump’s tweets came shortly after The National Enquirer came out with the latest in a series of articles about Bezos’s divorce from his wife of 25 years.
American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, is controlled by Trump’s longtime friend David Pecker.
American Media, Inc. in December admitted that it paid $150,000 to a woman “in concert with” Trump’s campaign “in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election.”
The company agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Some believe what the National Enquirer revealed to Special Counsel Robert Mueller could be more damaging than anything related to Russia.
Trump last week wished Bezos “luck” on his divorce.
“It’s going to be a beauty,” Trump added.
Trump has been married three times and divorced twice.
His affairs made constant headlines in the New York market for years.
Bezos announced Wednesday that he and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, were getting a divorce.
“Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends,” Bezos said in a statement.
Bezos, 54, and MacKenzie, 48, were married in early 1993. They met while working at a New York-based hedge fund. They have four children.
The president has regularly antagonized Bezos, criticizing both Amazon and The Washington Post.
Trump has criticized Amazon’s agreement with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to ship packages at reduced rates, blaming the retail giant for the fiscal woes at USPS and for hurting smaller businesses.