ZEENAT MOORAD: Trump’s unjust war on Amazon
Trump’s rant against Amazon has nothing to do with Amazon or policy, and everything to do with personal animus
Russian president Vladimir Putin isn’t a tweeter. But he does think the use of social media by his US counterpart and frenemy Donald Trump makes him (wait for it) a modern man. Trump himself has extolled the virtues of social media, calling its use "modern-day presidential", as if venerating the features of a pressure cooker for exhausted career women on an infomercial. Trump, in fact, doubts he would have made it to the White House without social media. "When somebody says something about me, I am able to go bing, bing, bing and I take care of it. The other way, I would never get the word out," he told Fox Business Network. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Trump’s presidency is in many ways characterised by his 140-character pronouncements — and their potential for wreaking diplomatic havoc, mounting attacks on opponents, bullying, flattering and nauseating. In the past few weeks, Trump’s vitriol has been directed at online retail giant Amazon. He says it is not paying e...
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