Trump is reportedly 'obsessed' with bringing down Amazon's Jeff Bezos

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He hasn't come up with a nickname for him yet á la Little Marco or Lyin' Ted Cruz, but President Trump definitely has it out for Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, several people close to Trump told Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman.

In recent days, Trump has directed several vitriolic tweets at Bezos, accusing Amazon of using "our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.)" and "putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" After a sharp tweet on Monday morning, Amazon's stocks went down 5 percent, and four people close to Trump told Sherman that he wants to use Twitter to hurt the company. "It's war," one person said, with another revealing: "He gets obsessed with something, and now he's obsessed with Bezos. Trump is like, how can I f--k with him?"

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.