Mr Viral
Jeff Bezos continues to lean into his newfound Floridian identity, establishing the Sunshine State as his home base. There was his move to a “billionaire bunker” (which Fortune estimates has already saved him roughly $1 billion this year in taxes) and the recent announcement that Evan Whitesell, his fiancée Lauren Sánchez’s son, will attend the University of Miami next year, And now a fortuitous dinner date.
On Wednesday, Bezos and Sánchez were spotted striding into Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach residence of president-elect Donald Trump, to meet with the politician ahead of his second term. Bezos, who once accused Trump of denying Amazon a $10 billion government contract because of a personal grudge (a judge dismissed the suit), has in recent weeks said he’s “actually very optimistic this time around,” and has reportedly pledged to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
Bezos and Sánchez entered Mar-a-Lago hand in hand, and sat at a table with Trump and wife Melania Trump for dinner.
Midway through the meal, however, they were reportedly joined by another billionaire: Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been moonlighting as a slash-and-burn guy under the auspices of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) working group. Bezos has also had a fraught relationship with Musk. As recently as late November, Musk tweeted that he’d “learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that [Trump] would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock.” Bezos shot back, “Nope. 100% not true.”
On Thursday, in response to a tweet highlighting an article about the two moguls dining with Trump, Musk wrote, “It was a great conversation.”
Trump also had a nice time, if his Thursday morning dispatch on social media platform Truth Social is anything to go by: “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” he wrote.
Everybody also had something to say about Trump’s hair: A video of Trump strutting into the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach this week has commentators praising, poking fun at, or otherwise analyzing his follicular follies. Apparently fresh off the greens, Trump enters the building’s foyer, infamous red cap in hand, wearing slacks and a white polo helpfully embroidered with his own name. His hair appears to be slicked back, rather than in its usual voluminous bouffant. One social media user compared the look to Buzz McCallister in the movie Home Alone, dubbing it “fucking hilarious,” while Mike Sington called it “a big improvement, and makes him look more youthful.” Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner deemed the look a tribute to “the winds of winning,” while New York Magazine posited that it’s all much ado about hat hair, and that no makeover actually occurred.
Wool we ever know the truth? Nobody knows fur sure.
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