Jeff Bezos issues blunt response to Elon Musk's claim he predicted Trump would lose

Jeff Bezos has clapped backmost astatine Elon Musk over a connection claiming the Amazon laminitis told radical to merchantability Tesla and SpaceX banal due to the fact that Trump 'would suffer for sure'. 

Musk and Bezos have had a contentious rivalry implicit the years arsenic they've flipped betwixt being the richest and second-richest men connected the planet. 

On Thursday, Musk posted to X: 'Just learned contiguous astatine Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would suffer for sure, truthful they should merchantability each their Tesla and SpaceX stock so they should merchantability each their Tesla and SpaceX stock.' 

Bezos rapidly issued a blunt response, penning back: 'Nope. 100% not true.'

Musk was past rapidly deferential successful the replies: 'Well, then, I basal corrected.'

Bezos had not tweeted astatine immoderate constituent since his station congratulating Trump connected his predetermination victory.

'Big congratulations to our 45th and present 47th President connected an bonzer governmental comeback and decisive victory. No federation has bigger opportunities. Wishing [Trump] each occurrence successful starring and uniting the America we each love,' helium wrote November 6.

It continued a bid of overtures Bezos has made toward the president aft the Washington Post declined to endorse a campaigner successful the race, though its since been clarified that the billionaire did not marque that decision. 

He whitethorn request a bully narration with Musk to proceed those bid offerings arsenic the multi-hyphenate begins his enactment arsenic Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-chair.  

Bezos and Musk person had an occasionally contentious rivalry implicit the past 2 decades, with Bezos skeptical of Musk's program to colonize Mars and Musk saying Amazon should beryllium breached up. 

The rivalry goes backmost to 2004 erstwhile Bezos accepted an invitation from Musk to circuit the SpaceX facility.

Afterwards helium received a 'somewhat curt email' aft from Musk 'expressing annoyance' wherefore Bezos hadn't invited Musk to Blue Origin successful Seattle, truthful Bezos promptly did.

But connected the circuit Bezos was taken aback erstwhile Musk started telling him however to tally the company.

Musk said: 'Dude we tried that and that turned retired to beryllium truly dumb truthful I'm telling you, don't bash the dumb happening we did'.

Bezos thought Musk was 'a spot excessively definite of himself' fixed helium hadn't really launched a rocket yet, Walter Isaacson wrote astir the duo.

In different publication written astir the pair, Musk claims Bezos shafted him erstwhile some Bezos' Blue Origin and SpaceX were beginning.

'I really did my champion to springiness bully advice, which helium mostly ignored,' Musk said. 

The adjacent known nationalist spat betwixt the brace was erstwhile Blue Origin protested SpaceX's quality to usage a NASA launchpad exclusively, which Musk categorized arsenic a 'phony tactic'

He past went disconnected connected Bezos' abstraction institution arsenic a whole. 

'[Blue Origin] has not yet succeeded successful creating a reliable suborbital spacecraft, contempt spending implicit 10 years successful development,' helium said. 

'If they bash someway amusement up successful the adjacent 5 years with a conveyance qualified to NASA's quality standing standards that tin dock with the Space Station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do, we volition gladly accommodate their needs.'

However, helium clarified: 'I deliberation we are much apt to observe unicorns dancing successful the occurrence duct.' 

Much of Musk's issues with Bezos person had to bash with Blue Origin, arsenic he's criticized their hiring practices and attempts to patent technology that already exists, according to Business Insider. 

Space News reported that SpaceX has an email filter that gets escaped of the words 'blue' and 'origin.'

While the feud has mostly been one-sided successful public, Bezos slammed Musk's imagination of colonizing Mars successful 2019, calling it 'un-motivating.'

'Go unrecorded connected the apical of Mount Everest for a twelvemonth archetypal and spot if you similar it, due to the fact that it's a plot paradise compared to Mars,' helium said.

In the 2020s, Blue Origin and SpaceX person battled implicit NASA contracts.

Blue Origin filed a 2021 suit against NASA, claiming a $2.9 cardinal lunar lander declaration was unfairly awarded to SpaceX earlier that year.

The suit 'challenges NASA´s unlawful and improper valuation of proposals.'

Blue Origin was primitively successful contention with SpaceX and a 3rd steadfast called Dynetics for what was expected to beryllium 2 NASA contracts. 

In response, Musk rolled his chap multibillionaire Bezos, tweeting helium 'can't get it up (to orbit).'

Musk has criticized Amazon, saying it 'should beryllium breached up' and that Bezos 'takes himself a small excessively seriously.'

He further fueled the antagonism with Bezos with a 2021 interrogation successful which helium praised Bezos for having 'reasonably bully engineering aptitude' but helium said helium didn't walk capable clip connected the details.

He mocked Bezos' affluent manner and compared it to him surviving successful rented quarters successful Texas.

Musk said: 'In immoderate ways I'm trying to goad him into spending much clip astatine Blue Origin truthful they marque much progress. He should walk much clip astatine Blue Origin and little clip successful the blistery tub'.

While Musk is simply a monolithic Trump protagonist and has been retired connected the run way giving distant $1million a time to recently registered voters who volition pledge their enactment for the erstwhile president, Bezos has been much of a thorn successful Trump's side. 

Indeed, erstwhile Trump archetypal ran for president, helium began to endanger however Amazon and Jeff Bezos would wage the price. 

'If I go president — oh, bash they person problems. They're going to person specified problems,' helium warned. 

Trump was peculiarly aggrieved astatine Bezos's ownership of the Washington Post.

He would rage astatine what helium called the 'Amazon Washington Post,' claiming spuriously that it had avoided 'internet taxes.' 

During his clip successful bureau Trump became 'obsessed' with retribution against Bezos for the Post's antagonistic sum of him.

'Every hour, we're getting calls from reporters from the Washington Post asking ridiculous questions,' helium ranted successful erstwhile instance. 'And I volition archer you: This is owned arsenic a artifact by Jeff Bezos, who controls Amazon. Amazon is getting distant with murder, taxwise. He's utilizing the Washington Post for power.'

During the Trump administration, Amazon sued the authorities aft alleging it had blocked a $10 cardinal cloud-computing-services declaration with the Pentagon implicit the then-president's ire astir sum successful the Post.

Yet passim the Trump presidency, Bezos resolutely supported the staff's sum and helium has not interfered with reporting connected his ain concern interests oregon idiosyncratic life.

Bezos, successful turn, criticized Musk's $44 cardinal acquisition of Twitter: 'Did the Chinese authorities conscionable summation a spot of leverage implicit the municipality square?' 

He did clarify his position: 'My ain reply to this question is astir apt not. The much apt result successful this respect is complexity successful China for Tesla, alternatively than censorship astatine Twitter.'

'But we'll see. Musk is highly bully astatine navigating this benignant of complexity,' Bezos added. 

Bezos gave immoderate clearer thoughts connected Musk successful an interrogation with Lex Friedman successful 2023.

'I don't truly cognize Elon precise well. I cognize his nationalist persona but I besides cognize you can't cognize anyone by their nationalist persona - it's impossible. You whitethorn deliberation you do, but I warrant you don't.'

He complimented Musk arsenic idiosyncratic who 'must beryllium a precise susceptible leader' and didn't disagree with suggestions the 2 were similar.  

'I hold with you and I deliberation with a batch of these endeavors we're precise like-minded. So I think, I'm not saying we're identical, but we're precise like-minded truthful I emotion that idea.'

Recently, it appeared determination was different little peace erstwhile Musk praised Bezos for defending the Washington Post implicit his paper's determination not to endorse Kamala Harris oregon Trump.

Bezos said that governmental endorsements 'create a cognition of bias' and argued ending the long-running signifier of endorsing a campaigner for the White House was a 'principled decision, and it's the close one.'

'Presidential endorsements bash thing to extremity the scales of an election. No undecided voters successful Pennsylvania are going to say, 'I'm going with Newspaper A's endorsement.' None,' helium wrote. 

In response, penning connected X, Musk wrote, 'kudos to @JeffBezos' portion retweeting an earlier tweet that read, 'Kudos to @JeffBezos for telling the newsroom the hard, bitter truth: there's thing incorrect with the readers.'