Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder who bought the Washington Post presumably to own the libs' favorite propaganda megaphone, reportedly told President Trump over dinner that the paper was the worst investment he ever made. And honestly, when the guy who lights money on fire launching rockets into space says you're a bad investment, that's really saying something.
Imagine being so bad at your job that your billionaire boss tells the President of the United States you're "terrible."
The bombshell comes from a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, who detail a December 2024 dinner conversation between Bezos and Trump. According to the book, Bezos didn't mince words about his newspaper's workforce, telling Trump that "the people there are terrible" and that unlike his other companies, "the people at the Washington Post don't listen."
The man who runs a company famous for making warehouse workers sprint through shifts on timed bathroom breaks — even that guy thinks the Post's journalists are unmanageable.
The numbers tell the rest of the story. The Washington Post was hemorrhaging roughly $100 million a year in losses. A hundred million. Annually. You could fund a small country's military for that, but instead it was subsidizing resistance-era opinion columns that nobody outside a D.C. cocktail party wanted to read.
Bezos eventually did what any rational owner would do — he laid off 300 journalists. Three hundred. That's not a trim. That's a chainsaw. He also reportedly directed the opinion pages to start promoting "personal liberties and free markets," which for the Post's newsroom must have felt like being told to start rooting for the Yankees at Fenway Park.
Now here's the part that really makes you laugh. The Post had already been bleeding subscribers after Bezos made the decision to withhold an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Readers — and by readers we mean the blue-check resistance crowd — canceled their subscriptions in a huff because the paper wouldn't formally tell them who to vote for. The entitlement is breathtaking. They didn't want journalism. They wanted a permission slip.
So to recap: Bezos bought the Post, watched it lose a fortune, saw the staff ignore every business directive, endured a subscriber revolt because he wouldn't endorse the Democratic candidate, and then sat down with the President and basically said "I should've bought a boat."
This is what happens when ideology replaces competence. The Washington Post spent years positioning itself as the noble guardian of democracy — "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and all that self-important nonsense — while the actual business was dying in broad daylight. They were so busy writing hit pieces on Trump that they forgot somebody has to pay for the ink.
And now we know even their own boss thinks they're terrible. Not misguided. Not struggling. Terrible.
As reported by Just the News, the dinner revelation is just one piece of the Swan-Haberman book, but it might be the most satisfying. Every journalist at the Post who spent the last decade lecturing America about truth and accountability just got a one-word performance review from the guy who signs the checks.
Terrible. Couldn't have said it better ourselves.