Is Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin the reason Jeff Bezos' Washington Post didn't endorse Kamala Harris?

Donald Trump met today with executives from Blue Origin – the space company owned and operated by Jeff Bezos.

Trump met with David Limp, the company's CEO, and Megan Mitchell, his vice president for government relations, after an early afternoon news conference on “Border Security and Migrant Crime” that Trump held in Austin, Texas, on the Million Air private plane terminal in the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

The moment was captured by Alex Brandon, an Associated Press staff photographer who first reported the news.

The meeting will take place on the same day The Washington Post –also owned by Jeff Bezos – killed a presidential endorsement from Kamala Harris, written by The post's editorial team. The newspaper reported that Bezos himself rejected the recommendation.

The decision outraged many The post Newsrooms and journalists from across the industry.

Blue Origin has struggled for relevance in the battle to reach space. The company has become Bezos' primary occupation since he stepped down from Amazon's operational leadership in 2021, he told podcaster Lex Fridman in December.

“I wanted to come in and Blue Origin needs me now,” he said at the time. “I left the role of CEO (at Amazon) and the main reason I did that is so I could dedicate time to Blue Origin and add some energy and a sense of urgency – we need to move much faster, and “That’s what we’re going to do.”

Bezos didn't leave Amazon to spend more time with it The Washington Postthe newspaper he bought for $250 million in 2013. The post is in a battle for relevance with The New York Times And The Wall Street Journal—as well as many new media competitors in DC – but Bezos is in a much bigger battle for relevance: the battle for space, which he has long been losing against Elon Musk, the founder of Space X and one of only two men in the world are richer than him.

The post endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, writing at the time that Trump had “proven to be bigoted, ignorant, deceitful, narcissistic, vengeful, petty, misogynistic, financially reckless, intellectually lazy, contemptuous of democracy and in love with America's enemies.” As president, he poses a grave danger to the nation and the world.”

Bezos suffered from this direct attitude after Trump won the presidency. The Trump administration awarded a $10 billion defense contract for cloud computing to Microsoft rather than Amazon, a move that was widely seen as politically motivated and was later canceled by the Biden administration.

The postThe absent owner of 's obviously doesn't want to be put in a situation like this again.