Jeff Bezos reportedly told Trump the Washington Post was his ‘worst investment’ before staff cuts

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told then-President-elect Donald Trump at a December 2024 dinner that The Washington Post was his "worst investment" months before he authorized sweeping staff cuts at the newspaper, according to a forthcoming book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman. Bezos reportedly vented to Trump about the people running the Post's business side after the newspaper lost more than $100 million that year. "The people there are terrible," Bezos told Trump, a