[sethev]

It may sound conspiratorial but Trump did say this about Amazon: "Believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems, they are going to have such problems" [1] We'll see. [1]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-je...

[azernik]

As far as I understand, that's more a grudge about the Post's critical coverage of Trump than a populist objection to the business model.

[sdfjkjasdfsd67]

Bannon is full of rage towards SV and the tech scene. Largely based on his belief that they're undermining white America:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste...

Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country." He's imploding our relations with long-time allies.

It's not hard for me to see Trump not caring that 100k+ jobs are being created if it means they're not going to get him any prestige for making them. He'll undermine Amazon or Google if there's a shot at doing something else over here to create jobs, so long as it makes him look good.

[gumby]

That's pretty scary to read as a GC holding "job creator".

I'm also amazed they are saying American workers just can't compete with foreigners.

[gowld]

Amazon, however, is run by a white dude, so it's going to be lower on Bannon's list.

> Trump himself has told foreign born, but now legal citizens, to "get out of his country."

In the video that circulated yesterday, I think that was a security guard, not Trump himself.

[bduerst]

And at what point does that even matter? I'm being serious.

I feel like Trump has trained people to not believe anything he says, until it happens, and then people think he's doing exactly what he said he would do. The president said Amazon is going to have problems.

[sethev]

Sure - that's a plausible guess. It also didn't seem to bother his base.