President Donald Trump met privately with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at the White House last week, according to sources cited by CNBC. The agenda for the hour-long meeting remains undisclosed. It comes as the Trump administration reconsiders its ties to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and evaluates new partners for the $175 billion Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missile defense system. Bezos’s Blue Origin and Amazon’s Project Kuiper are reportedly among the contenders. Recent discussions between Bezos, Trump, and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp centered on government contracts, according to The Wall Street Journal. Bezos, who previously clashed with Trump over his ownership of The Washington Post, has warmed relations with Trump in his second term, including public praise from the president and a pledge not to pass tariff costs onto Amazon consumers.
