Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”
That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in response to Bezos’ shocking announcement that he was taking his media outlet, the Washington Post, in a Trumpian direction as well.
The Post’s opinion section will now advance Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board with this “significant shift” can take a hike, Bezos seemed to tell Post employees, in a note he also shared on X (2/26/25).
That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.
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Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.
And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.
All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.
I’m probably your father’s age and I have cancelled my subscription.