The Amazon founder and CEO doesn’t often take to social media, but a chance to put the controversial Mr Trump (which sounds like a Roald Dahl book) in his place was clearly too much to resist.
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The Post’s fact checker column concluded on Monday that “just about every word uttered by Trump needs to be taken with a grain of salt” and awarded him “Four Pinocchios”.
But Bezos had a snappy response: Send Donald Trump to space. Blue Origin is his rocket company, which recently launched a rocket and saw it land intact.
The Washington Post suggested that with presidential candidate Jeb Bush polling at 3 percent, his Right to Rise super PAC should use what’s left of the funds it has raised to run negative campaign ads about Trump in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC. It included the hashtag #sendDonaldtospace.
And in the first nine months of this year, Amazon has paid $498 million in income taxes and reported pre-tax income of $630 million.
So, given Trump’s shouting totally wrong stuff all the time, we won’t get into the fact these are three unrelated companies and the fortunes of one does not save the other.
On Trump’s claim that Amazon is unprofitable, the chief economist with tax analysts said that accusation does not make any sense. “Big tax shelter”, he continued. Well, in a series of tweets, Trump accused him of running a tax scam through his ownership of the Washington Post.
It has been targeted in probes in Europe for allegedly paying lower taxes there than it should.
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Amazon had no comment about Trump’s allegations.
