Jeff Bezos continues to lean into his newfound Floridian id, establishing the Sunshine State as his house base. There was his transfer to a “billionaire bunker” (which Fortune estimates has already saved him roughly $1 billion this yr in taxes) and the current announcement that Evan Whitesell, his fiancée Lauren Sánchez’s son, will attend the College of Miami subsequent yr, And now a fortuitous dinner date.
On Wednesday, Bezos and Sánchez had been noticed striding into Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Seashore residence of president-elect Donald Trump, to fulfill with the politician forward of his second time period. Bezos, who as soon as accused Trump of denying Amazon a $10 billion authorities contract due to a private grudge (a decide dismissed the suit), has in current weeks mentioned he’s “actually very optimistic this time round,” and has reportedly pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
Bezos and Sánchez entered Mar-a-Lago hand in hand, and sat at a desk with Trump and spouse Melania Trump for dinner.
Halfway via the meal, nevertheless, they had been reportedly joined by another billionaire: Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been moonlighting as a slash-and-burn man beneath the auspices of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) working group. Bezos has additionally had a fraught relationship with Musk. As not too long ago as late November, Musk tweeted that he’d “realized tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everybody that [Trump] would lose for positive, so they need to promote all their Tesla and SpaceX inventory.” Bezos shot again, “Nope. 100% not true.”
On Thursday, in response to a tweet highlighting an article in regards to the two moguls eating with Trump, Musk wrote, “It was an awesome dialog.”
Trump additionally had a pleasant time, if his Thursday morning dispatch on social media platform Fact Social is something to go by: “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” he wrote.
All people additionally had one thing to say about Trump’s hair: A video of Trump strutting into the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore this week has commentators praising, poking enjoyable at, or in any other case analyzing his follicular follies. Apparently recent off the greens, Trump enters the constructing’s lobby, notorious pink cap in hand, carrying slacks and a white polo helpfully embroidered along with his personal identify. His hair appears to be slicked back, relatively than in its ordinary voluminous bouffant. One social media consumer compared the look to Buzz McCallister within the film House Alone, dubbing it “fucking hilarious,” whereas Mike Sington called it “a giant enchancment, and makes him look younger.” Fox Information anchor Harris Faulkner deemed the look a tribute to “the winds of profitable,” whereas New York Journal posited that it’s all much ado about hat hair, and that no makeover truly occurred.
Wool we ever know the reality? No one is aware of fur positive.
