Elon Musk applauds Bezos' Washington Post op-ed as long standing feud between billionaires appears to thaw

Elon Musk has travel retired successful support of chap billionaire Jeff Bezos aft nan erstwhile Amazon CEO defended The Washington Post's determination to not backmost a campaigner successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Writing successful an op-ed connected Monday night, Bezos said that governmental endorsements 'create a cognition of bias' and based on ending the long-running believe of endorsing a campaigner for nan White House was a 'principled decision, and it's nan correct one.'

'Presidential endorsements do thing to extremity nan scales of an election. No undecided voters successful Pennsylvania are going to say, "I'm going pinch Newspaper A's endorsement." None,' he wrote.

In response, penning connected X, Musk wrote, 'kudos to @JeffBezos' while retweeting an earlier tweet that read, 'Kudos to @JeffBezos for telling nan newsroom nan hard, bitter truth: there's thing incorrect pinch nan readers.

That tweet besides contained a action of Bezos words from nan op-ed: 'Reality is an undefeated champion. It would beryllium easy to blasted others for our agelong and continuing autumn successful credibility (and, therefore, diminution successful impact), but a unfortunate mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must activity harder to power what we tin power to summation our credibility.' 

The nickname and applause by Musk appears to somewhat thaw their longstanding feud.

The paid person been fighting for power of abstraction tourism and for contracts pinch NASA for 2 decades.

The rivalry goes backmost to 2004 erstwhile Bezos accepted an induce from Musk to circuit nan SpaceX facility.

Afterwards he received a ‘somewhat curt email’ aft from Musk ‘expressing annoyance’ why Bezos hadn’t invited Musk to Blue Origin successful Seattle, truthful Bezos promptly did.

But connected nan circuit Bezos was taken aback erstwhile Musk started telling him really to tally nan company.

Musk said: ‘Dude we tried that and that turned retired to beryllium really dumb truthful I’m telling you, don’t do nan dumb point we did’.

Bezos thought Musk was ‘a spot excessively judge of himself’ fixed he hadn’t really launched a rocket yet, Isaacson writes.

Tensions flared again successful 2011 erstwhile NASA approved SpaceX to usage nan famed Pad 39A astatine its Cape Canaveral motorboat tract successful Florida which was utilized by nan Apollo missions.

Bezos sued and Musk was ‘furious’.

Musk thought it was ‘ridiculous’ for Blue Origin to kick ‘when they haven’t moreover gotten arsenic overmuch arsenic a toothpick to orbit’.

Bezos further enraged Musk erstwhile he applied for a patent called ‘sea landing of abstraction motorboat vehicles’.

Musk complained that landing ships astatine oversea had been discussed for 50 years. SpaceX sued and Bezos appeared to cancel nan patent.

In November of 2015, Bezos became nan first to motorboat a rocket to nan separator of abstraction connected an 11 minute, 62 mile precocious journey.

In his first ever Tweet, Bezos said that ‘full reuse (of a rocket) is simply a crippled changer’. He called his reusable rocket ‘the rarest of beasts’.

Musk mocked it successful a Tweet saying: ‘Not rather ‘rarest’, SpaceX Grasshopper did 6 suborbital flights 3 years agone & is still around’.

Four weeks later Musk achieved nan aforesaid feat pinch a Falcon 9 rocket, earning what appeared to beryllium praise from Bezos who Tweeted: ‘Congrats @spacex connected landline falcon’s suborbital booster stage. Welcome to nan club!’

The power betwixt nan 2 men really turned up successful April 2021 erstwhile SpaceX was awarded contracts pinch NASA to return astronauts connected nan last limb of nan travel to nan moon.

A celebratory Musk mocked Bezos erstwhile he Tweeted: ‘Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol’.

Musk further fueled nan antagonism pinch Bezos pinch a 2021 question and reply successful which he praised Bezos for having ‘reasonably bully engineering aptitude’ but he said he didn’t walk capable clip connected nan details.

Musk mocked Bezos’ able manner and compared it to him surviving successful rented quarters successful Texas.

Musk said: ‘In immoderate ways I’m trying to goad him into spending much clip astatine Blue Origin truthful they make much progress. He should walk much clip astatine Blue Origin and little clip successful nan basking tub’.

While Musk is simply a monolithic Trump protagonist and has been retired connected nan run way giving distant $1million a time to recently registered voters who will promise their support for nan erstwhile president, Bezos has been much of a thorn successful Trump's side. 

Indeed, erstwhile Trump first ran for president, he began to frighten really Amazon and Jeff Bezos would salary nan price. 

'If I go president — oh, do they person problems. They're going to person specified problems,' he warned. 

Trump was peculiarly aggrieved astatine Bezos's ownership of nan Washington Post.

He would rage astatine what he called nan 'Amazon Washington Post,' claiming spuriously that it had avoided 'internet taxes.' 

During his clip successful agency Trump became 'obsessed' pinch retribution against Bezos for nan Post's antagonistic sum of him.

'Every hour, we're getting calls from reporters from nan Washington Post asking ridiculous questions,' he ranted successful erstwhile instance. 'And I will show you: This is owned arsenic a artifact by Jeff Bezos, who controls Amazon. Amazon is getting distant pinch murder, taxwise. He's utilizing nan Washington Post for power.'

During nan Trump administration, Amazon sued nan authorities aft alleging it had blocked a $10 cardinal cloud-computing-services statement pinch nan Pentagon complete nan then-president's ire astir sum successful nan Post.

Yes passim nan Trump presidency, Bezos resolutely supported nan staff's sum and he has not interfered pinch reporting connected his ain business interests aliases individual life.

It's what makes nan abrupt determination not to endorse a campaigner astatine specified a precocious shape successful nan crippled truthful funny - and successful particular, not to endorse nan Democratic candidate. 

Once erstwhile columnist Robert Kagan, an editor-at-large, explained his determination connected CNN Friday nighttime to resign from nan paper.

'We are successful truth bending nan knee to Donald Trump because we're acrophobic of what he will do,' Kagan told The Daily Beast this weekend. 

'Trump waited to make judge that Bezos did what he said he was going to do – and past met pinch nan Bezos Blue Origin people,' Kagad explained, 'which tells america that location was an existent woody made, meaning that Bezos communicated, aliases done his people, communicated straight pinch Trump, and they group up this quid pro quo.'

On Monday nighttime Bezos expressly denied immoderate quid pro quo had taken spot successful narration to nan scrapping of immoderate campaigner endorsement. 

'I would besides for illustration to beryllium clear that nary quid pro quo of immoderate benignant is astatine activity here. Neither run nor campaigner was consulted aliases informed astatine immoderate level aliases successful immoderate measurement astir this decision. It was made wholly internally,' Bezos wrote.