Jeff Bezos said during an interview that he feels “very optimistic” about the upcoming Trump administration.
“I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” he said. “He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. And my point of view, if I can help him do that, I’m going to help him because we do have too much regulation in this country. This country is so set up to grow.”
“By the way, all of our problems, all of our economic problems, like if you look at the deficit and the national debt, and how gigantic it is as a portion of GDP — these are real problems, and they’re real long-term problems — and the way you get out of them is by outgrowing them,” he continued. “You’re going to solve the problem of the national debt by making it a smaller percentage of GDP, not by shrinking the national debt, but by growing the GDP. You have to grow the denominator. That means you have to grow GDP at 3%, 4%, 5% a year, and let the national debt grow slower than that. If you can do that, this is a very manageable problem.”
Bezos noted that the United States is the “luckiest country in the world.”
“We have all these natural resources, including energy independence. We have the best risk capital system in the world, by far.”
Bezos reiterated later in the interview that he was “super optimistic” about how President-elect Donald Trump could handle deregulation.
Bezos congratulated Trump after his 2024 presidential victory, writing on X, “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”
