“Nope. 100% not true,” Bezos replied. “Well, then, I stand corrected,” Musk responded, with a laughing emoji. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the election and received heavy backing from Musk, whom the president-elect has tapped to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy in his second term. Musk’s cozy relationship with Trump has given investors further confidence in the success of Musk’s companies, particularly Tesla and SpaceX, which has billions in government contracts. Tesla shares have surged nearly 57% over the past month. Elon Musk claimed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted President-elect Trump would lose “Nope. 100% not true,” Bezos replied on X. Getty Images Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, did not endorse either presidential candidate this year and sparked a revolt from staffers and subscribers of the newspaper after he halted the editorial board’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, establishing a new policy of not issuing endorsements for presidential candidates. Following the election, Bezos congratulated Trump on X for “an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory.” Musk is the world’s richest person with an estimated net worth of $316.2 billion, according to Forbes. Bezos is third on the outlet’s real-time billionaires list with a fortune of $217.4 billion. However, Bezos has been in the top spot several times over the years, most recently in March when he briefly overtook Musk. Musk’s cozy relationship with Trump has given investors further confidence in the success of Musk’s companies, particularly Tesla and SpaceX via REUTERS Bezos and Musk are also rivals in the space race, where their respective aerospace companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX, compete in space travel and exploration. Amazon, with the help of Blue Origin, is also planning to launch a satellite broadband service, Project Kuiper, to compete with Musk’s Starlink. Filed under