Donald Trump’s Tweet dubbing Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s billionaire founder, “Jeff Bozo” reveals more than the locker room MO of our president. Our country’s roots are in England, where people of importance are knighted. In America, we now have our own version of knighthood: a nickname from Donald Trump.
Amazon is this little hidden gem you may not have heard of where you can buy things. It’s just like eBay except the Amazon stuff doesn’t show up at your house smelling like cigarette smoke and mothballs. If you order a battery from Amazon, workers find it, ship it on a truck, then a plane, then bubble wrap it in a box the size of a mini-fridge, then put it on another plane and another diesel truck belching smoke to drop it at your house – all the while bragging about how “green” they are.
Amazon also is in the entertainment business. It paid Woody Allen millions to tell his story, from his childhood growing up on the playgrounds of New York City to his current days hanging around playgrounds of New York City.
When Trump and Bezos look at each other, aside from both thinking “What happened to his hair?”, they see similar-style political billionaires and crony capitalists. Both capitulate to political power to run their businesses. Remember, Trump was a Democrat most of his life; he wouldn’t have made it in New York otherwise.
As in all of Trump’s bombastic bluster, there’s an important truth. He suggests in his Tweet that The Washington Post ought to have to register as a lobbyist because of its leftist and one-sided coverage, leaks and activism.