Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin and the guy who owns the Washington Post — yeah, THAT Jeff Bezos — just went on national television and said Donald Trump has been "right about a lot of things." If you had that on your 2026 bingo card, congratulations, you're a prophet.
Let that sink in for a moment. The man whose newspaper spent an entire first term treating Trump like a war criminal just told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on Squawk Box that Trump deserves credit. Somebody check the thermostat in Hell.
Bezos didn't just offer a polite nod, either. He went full compliment tour. "Trump has lots of good ideas, and he's been right about a lot of things," Bezos said. "You have to give him credit where credit is due." He even called this version of Trump "a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term."
Now, we all knew Trump was right. We didn't need the richest man on the planet to confirm it. But there's something deeply satisfying about watching the people who spent years telling us we were crazy quietly admitting we were sane the whole time.
Bezos went further, telling the CNBC audience, "I've worked with all the presidents, I will work with all the presidents," and added, "I'm on the side of America." Welcome to the team, Jeff. Better late than never.
But the real gem came when Bezos talked about the economic future under this administration. He compared the current moment to digging out a basement with a shovel and said, "somebody is about to hand you a bulldozer." He was talking about artificial intelligence, productivity gains, and the coming boom. He even predicted deflation — actual falling prices — which, after the Biden inflation nightmare, sounds like music to every American's ears.
"I predict we'll actually have deflation," Bezos said. Read that again. The guy who runs the biggest retail operation on Earth thinks prices are going down. Under Trump.
This is what happens when you govern well. Your loudest critics start shuffling their feet and mumbling that maybe, just maybe, you know what you're doing. Bezos discussed labor shortages, AI-driven productivity, and the kind of economic environment that business leaders actually want to operate in — one where the government isn't trying to regulate you into oblivion.
As Breitbart's Alana Mastrangelo reported, this is a remarkable shift from the adversarial posture Bezos maintained during Trump's first term. Back then, it was open warfare between the White House and the Washington Post. Now? "We need our business leaders to provide input into the administration," Bezos said.
Funny how that works. When the economy is humming and the adults are in charge, even the billionaire class decides cooperation beats resistance.
We don't need Jeff Bezos's approval to know we picked the right guy. But we'll take it. When your enemies start handing out compliments, you're not just winning — you've already won.