Biz Leaders From Musk to Cuban React to Trump Winning the Election

Jeff Bezos

The founding father of Amazon, who has been embroiled in controversy this election, congratulated Trump in a put up on X.

“Massive congratulations to our forty fifth and now forty seventh President on a rare political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos wrote. “No nation has greater alternatives. Wishing @realDonaldtrump all success in main and uniting the America all of us love.”

Bezos did not endorse a candidate this election however did stoke massive controversy when he blocked The Washington Publish, the newspaper he has owned since 2013, from endorsing Harris. In a column, Bezos defended his resolution, saying it might create an phantasm of bias for many who already do not belief the media. After the Publish introduced its resolution, a number of columnists give up, and tens of 1000’s of readers canceled their digital subscriptions.

“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote in an op-ed defending his resolution. He added, “I want we had made the change sooner than we did, in a second farther from the election and the feelings round it.”

The billionaire, value $211 billion, insisted that his resolution to block the endorsement was not a “quid professional quo” with Trump. He had met with the president-elect the identical day of the announcement to discuss Blue Origin, his area exploration firm. The corporate, like all non-public area firms, depends upon federal contracts and competes with Elon Musk’s extra dominant SpaceX for presidency tasks.

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia and one among Harris’ main donors, known as the newspaper’s resolution a “blunder” on CNBC’s Squawk Box.