Politico | How will Donald Trump take Amazon’s move to Washington? ‘He will think Bezos made this decision to stick it to him’
- CEO's decision to put down corporate roots in the Washington suburb of Crystal City threatens to stoke the president’s resentment of the tech mogul
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Eric Engleman and Steven Overly on politico.com on November, 13 2018.
Amazon's move to establish a new headquarters in the Washington area will have one immediate political impact: putting CEO Jeff Bezos more in US President Donald Trump's face than ever.
But the CEO's decision to put down corporate roots in the Washington suburb of Crystal City, injecting some 25,000 jobs into a region Trump has dubbed the “The Swamp”, threatens to stoke the president's resentment of the tech mogul.
“Anything that makes Bezos more prominent in Washington is going to irritate Trump and he will take it personally,” said Michael D’Antonio, author of the 2015 Trump biography Never Enough.
D’Antonio added: “He will think Bezos made this decision to stick it to him.”
Amazon had initially been expected to choose one winner for its second headquarters, but on Tuesday, the company announced two: Crystal City and the Long Island City neighbourhood in Queens, New York.