FATCAT FIGHT: Jeff Bezos Fires Back at Elon Musk Over Inflammatory Claim He Trash Talked Donald Trump

Two of the richest men in the world are fighting on social media.

Early on Thursday morning, Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and close advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, made an incendiary claim about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

“Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” wrote Musk on X at a little before 1:30 a.m. eastern time on Thursday.

Musk is the CEO of Tesla, an electric car company, as well as the founder and CEO of SpaceX.

Later in the morning, Bezos rejected the claim, replying to Musk’s tweet with a post that read “Nope. 100% not true.”

Nope. 100% not true.

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 21, 2024

The pair have long had a rocky relationship fueled by their competition in various technology sectors. SpaceX and Bezos’s Blue Origin have been rivals for more than two decades, and Musk has repeatedly derided Bezos as a “copycat.”

While Musk was an outspoken supporter of Trump’s over the course of the 2024 election cycle, Bezos kept a more low-profile. The Amazon founder did make headlines, however, when he prevented his high-profile newspaper, The Washington Post, from publishing an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump.

While many in the press saw Bezos’s intervention as an attempt to appease Trump and head off any efforts at revenge in the event that he won, the billionaire defended his decision as part of a larger effort to build trust with the public.

“In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” he wrote in an op-ed for the Post. “What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”

On the morning after election night, Bezos congratulated Trump on his victory.

“Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities,” he declared. “Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”