President Trump said in an interview with The Spectator that he had dinner Wednesday night with Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Why it matters: The dinner between Trump and Bezos happened the night Bezos announced changes to the Washington Post opinion section.

Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos last summer privately urged Donald Trump to pick Doug Burgum as Trump's vice president, saying he'd be an "excellent" choice.Why it matters: Bezos' phone conversation with Trump in July — detailed in my forthcoming book,

Trump says he dined with Jeff Bezos hours after dramatic change to Washington Post opinion section - Before apparently meeting Trump for dinner on Wednesday evening, Jeff Bezos sparked outrage among Washington Post journalists and readers when he announced that the paper’s opinion section will focus on “free markets” and “personal liberties” moving forward.

While some right-wing personalities praised Jeff Bezos’s decision to have The Washington Post‘s opinion section focus on conservative topics like personal liberties and free markets, Megyn Kelly offered a different perspective.

The seeds of the Trump-Bezos relationship were sewn over a pivotal summer phone call in July 2024, when the billionaire gave a nod to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, who has since been picked as Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, according to the book by Axios senior political reporter Alex Isenstadt.

U.S. lawmakers and officials voiced mixed reaction following a heated exchange between President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 28, that culminated in the Ukrainian delegation being ordered to leave the White House.