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Washington Post owner offers to put Republican presidential hopeful on his Blue Origin rocket in response to Twitter tirade
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photograph: Randall Hill/Reuters
Donald Trumpmocked Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ business acumen, so Bezos announced plans to blast the extremist Republican presidential hopeful into space.
Trump apparently has issues with the Washington Post, a US newspaper which, like most US newspapers, has been pointing out that the candidate’s policies and persona veer betweenludicrousandfascistic.
An hour before Trump began his tirade, the Post published an opinion piece titledDonald Trump is the Gamergate of Republican Politics. That might have been the inciting incident for Trump’s next few tweets, which lambasted the paper while claiming it was just a tax dodge for Amazon.
In fact, Amazon regularly turns a profit, although it is frequently small in comparison to its revenue, and Bezos owns the Washington Post personally, so its profit or loss wouldn’t affect the tax Amazon pays. Fact checking Donald Trump tweets is futile.
But Bezos had a snappy response: Send Donald Trump to space.
The Amazon founder’s spaceflight company, Blue Origin, may have recently demonstrated its own reusable rocket for the first time, but we suspect this trip would be on a one-way ticket.
