The Amazon boss responded to a post from the CEO of Tesla and Space X on the social network X to deny false information.
A little dialogue worth a few hundred billion dollars. Jeff Bezos responded Thursday to a post from Elon Musk on the social networklearned this evening at Mar-a-Lago (Donald Trump's famous private residence, editor's note) that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone to sell their Tesla and Space X shares because Donald Trump was going to lose (the American presidential election) for sure“. Response from the founder of Amazon: “No. This is 100% false.» And Elon Musk concluded the exchange: “In this case, time for me.»
The two billionaires, whose combined fortune is worth more than $500 billion, have built rival empires in several fields such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles and self-driving cars. Jeff Bezos is also the founder of SpaceX's space competitor, Blue Origin. They clashed in 2013 over the use of the Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A launch complex, then over a reusable rocket patent before the feud took a more personal tone. The two men regularly attack each other through the media. “It’s time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are bad!” Musk posted on Twitter in June 2020. Not to mention their symbolic battle for the place of richest man in the world, which they occupy in turns when it is not Bernard Arnault.
The Tesla and Space X CEO recently spent more than $130 million to support Donald Trump's candidacy. Since the Republican's re-election, he has spent many hours at Mar-a-Lago and has been named head of a government efficiency department, where he is tasked with reducing federal spending.
