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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Wednesday he’s “optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump's second term and expressed excitement about possible regulatory cuts in the approaching years.
“I'm actually very optimistic this time,” Bezos said onstage during a wide-ranging interview on the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. “He seems to be putting a lot of energy into reducing regulation. If I can help, I will help him.”
“We have too many regulations in this country,” Bezos added.
The comments follow a call by Bezos in October to ban the newspaper he owns from endorsing a presidential candidate. The move led to tens of hundreds of individuals canceling their subscriptions and journalists with a few years of experience on the newspaper protesting.
At the time, Bezos wrote in an editorial within the newspaper that editorial endorsements were fueling the perception of bias at a time when many Americans don't imagine the media and are doing nothing to tip the scales in an election.
On Wednesday, he said he would attempt to “dissuade” Trump from the concept that the press is the enemy.
“They've probably grown in the last eight years,” he told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. “He did too. This is not the case. The press is not the enemy.”
Trump railed against Bezos and his firms, including Amazon and Amazon, during his first term in office. In 2019, Amazon argued in a lawsuit that Trump's bias against the corporate hurt its probabilities of winning a $10 billion contract with the Pentagon. The Biden administration later sought a cope with each Amazon and Microsoft.
In one other a part of the interview, Bezos said he didn’t expect Elon Musk, who has been tasked with cutting regulations in Trump's upcoming term, to make use of his power to harm his business rivals. Bezos owns Blue Origin, a rival to Musk's SpaceX.
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