Jeff Bezos is outwardly attempting to capitalize on the current blowup between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, in keeping with a new report from The Wall Road Journal.
Bezos has spoken to Trump twice this month, at occasions discussing extra authorities contracts for his house firm Blue Origin, in keeping with the report. Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp additionally visited the White Home to fulfill with Trump’s chief of employees, Susie Wiles. Bezos even reportedly invited Trump to his upcoming marriage ceremony in Venice, Italy.
The interactions with the White Home got here after Musk and Trump spent days slinging mud at one another on social media. The SpaceX founder claimed the president is “within the Epstein recordsdata” and claimed that was why they “haven’t been made public.” Trump, in the meantime, threatened to remove “billions and billions of {dollars}” in authorities subsidies and contracts that go to Musk’s corporations.
Whereas that feud rapidly cooled, Bezos appears to have sensed a possibility for Blue Origin — particularly after Trump pulled the nomination of Musk’s most popular alternative to guide NASA. Musk has pushed arduous to focus SpaceX (and NASA) on missions to Mars, whereas Blue Origin’s near-term plans are extra oriented round missions to the moon. Within the current conversations, Trump “has mentioned with Bezos his need to see a crewed mission to the moon throughout his time period in workplace,” in keeping with the report.