Jeff Bezos is pushing back on a claim from fellow billionaire Elon Musk that the Amazon founder and Washington Post owner predicted former President Trump would lose this month’s presidential election to Vice President Harris.
“Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that [Trump] would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote on the social platform X, which he owns.
“Nope,” Bezos replied to Musk’s post. “100% not true.”
Musk solidified himself as a top ally to Trump along the 2024 campaign trail, pouring millions into his campaign along the way.
After winning the election, Trump tapped the billionaire tech and media mogul to lead a new agency, the “Department of Government Efficiency,” to take on what he and many Trump-loyal Republicans say is unnecessary federal spending.
Bezos made headlines and stirred controversy less than two weeks before the election, when he stopped the Post from publishing an editorial endorsing Harris that the newspaper’s editorial board had drafted.
Bezos defended the decision in a subsequent op-ed in the Post, saying presidential endorsements “create a perception of bias” and are unhelpful to the publication’s mission at a time when trust in media is deteriorating.