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AMAZON’S CEO HAS offered to send the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to space.
Jeff Bezos tweeted the response to Trump after he accused him of running a “no profit company”.
Trump said the newspaper, which Bezos bought back in 2013 for $250 million, was trying to undermine his campaign and was failing.
Donald J. Trump / TwitterThe @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
Donald J. Trump / TwitterThe @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
Donald J. Trump / TwitterIf @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
Donald J. Trump / Twitter.@washingtonpost is going out of its way to tell failing candidates how to beat Donald Trump.The Post doesn’t get that I’m good at winning!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
Bezos, who only joined Twitter late last month, made his fourth tweet a response to Trump, saying there was room for him on a test rocket from his private spaceflight company Blue Orbit.
Late last month, it released a demo of its reusable rocket that can launch and return to Earth intact.
Jeff Bezos / Twitter
Jeff Bezos / Twitter / Twitter
‘Closing the internet’
During his speech last night where he called for a “total and complete block” on Muslims entering the US, he suggested the country should consider “closing the internet” as a way of combating terrorism, and called those who argue against it “foolish people”.
“We’re losing a lot of people because of the internet, and we have to do something,” said Trump. “We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening”.
We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some way. Somebody will say ‘Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech’. These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.
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Not exactly the person I would choose as earth’s ambassador
Ambassador to The Sun. Its a one way trip. He will love it there.
As long as there is no way back to earth for him then i see no problems with this proposition
of course he would love it on the sun, there are no brown people there
I think we should send him up on a chocolate bicycle though and not a rock.
If we can leave matt Damon on Mars we can surely leave this dude on Uranus
One way ticket.
Trump:
“Ground Control please give me Permission to return?”
Ground Control:
“No Trump,maybe the Martians will accept you as an illegal immigrant”.
Would love to see trump as a refugee. Would be scaling fences & paying off boat operators in no time
Considering that Trump managed to repeatedly bankrupt what was one of the most successful companies in America and that he shipped huge numbers of US jobs overseas, the hypocrisy is just stunning.
There’s enough shite up there as it is…
Jeff Bezos is just the other side of the ideological cloth to Trump.
Except unlike Trump he isn’t pandering to racists for their votes……
So he can’t come back!?
And leave him there. He can entertain aliens!
Trump Towers opening a 5 star resort on Mars in 2024!
If he can’t come back, I’ll donate to the cause.
Close the Internet? Has he been talking to Fidelma?
Leave him up there. Preferably in the path of an oncoming asteroid
I think they should wait until they have a rocket that could put him in orbit. That one will launch him up a bit, but it will do nothing to stop him coming back down again.
Somehow somewhere I doubt he’s the only one….
Any room for Bell Enda and co!
Just in case there is no greed and corruption in outer space
He didn’t say if he’d bring him back again.
And leave him there?
At last someone else who suffers from crumbling paper bags.
Send him on one way ticket to mars cause he is out of this world in anyway
I don’t think DT needs any help to get into space apart from the hot air he spews everytime his mouth opens…
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