Trump has previously criticized Bezos on
a number of occasions, with the pair trading barbs throughout Trump’s election campaign. Trump later described the
Post as
The Amazon Washington Post and lashed out at the CEO for stories run by the paper.
“The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad,” Trump wrote on July 24 on Twitter.
“So many stories about me in the @washingtonpost are Fake News. They are as bad as ratings challenged @CNN. Lobbyist for Amazon and taxes?” he added.
Trump himself has come under fire over a tax issue, refusing to turn over his tax returns during the election campaign and since then. He has declared that avoiding paying federal taxes for 18 years makes him “smart.”