President Trump said in an interview with The Spectator that he had dinner Wednesday night with Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Why it matters: The dinner between Trump and Bezos happened the night Bezos announced changes to the Washington Post opinion section. It's another sign of Trump and Bezos growing closeness.

ISTANBUL (AA) - Both current and former staff members of The Washington Post are pushing back against owner Jeff Bezos after he announced a major shift in the paper’s editorial stance. In the new direction under Amazon.com owner Bezos, the Opinion section will primarily focus on “personal liberties” and “free markets.”

The paper’s billionaire owner has been accused of cosying up to Donald Trump after announcing a change in direction that sparked the resignation of the Post’s opinion editor.

The top White House spokesperson gloated at news that Jeff Bezos is steering the Washington Post toward the MAGA perspective. Steven Cheung, who is Donald Trump’s official mouthpiece, shared his delight on X at the multibillionaire owner’s announcement Wednesday that the paper’s opinion pages will focus on two conservative pillars: “free markets and personal liberties.

"I had dinner with Jeff Bezos last night," Trump told The Spectator World magazine Thursday as an aside while discussing how tech titans had warmed to him as he returned to office.