Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has offered to send businessman and presidential hopeful Donald Trump to space after Trump took to Twitter to attack Amazon and Bezos.
To put Bezos' statement in context, it was Trump that fired first through tweets sent out earlier in the week.
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
If @amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost scam is saving it! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
In the tweets, Trump was claiming that Amazon was a "no profit" company, and that Bezos only acquired the Washington Post to keep the taxes of Amazon down. This allegedly provides a big tax shelter to Amazon, and if Amazon would be required to pay fair taxes, Trump said that the online retail giant would "crumble like a paper bag." Bezos was not going to take the accusations in silence, despite the fact that there seems to be a disconnect on how a personal asset owned by Bezos could serve as a tax shelter for Amazon, when Amazon itself has no stake in the Washington Post. Bezos has only tweeted four things since joining Twitter seven years ago, and it seems that Trump's statements was a big enough thing for the Amazon CEO to get back on the social network.
Finally trashed by @realDonaldTrump. Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket. #sendDonaldtospace https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3 — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 7, 2015
The hashtag #sendDonaldtospace is hilarious, and it remains to be seen whether social media will make it trend.
