A new report indicates that President Trump and his advisers are looking at ways to ramp up his fight against his Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.

Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has spoken to four White House sources who told him that Trump has been “obsessed” with Bezos in the last few days. Indeed, the president recently unleashed a plethora of Twitter attacks about how Bezos’ online retail giant is bad for America, and how Washington Post should be classified as a lobbying firm since Bezos owns the paper.

“He’s off the hook on this. It’s war,” a source told Sherman. “Trump is like, how can I fuck with him?”

Sherman reports that Gary Cohn used to tell Trump that Amazon is a boon for the postal service, but now that he’s gone, Trump wants to increase Amazon’s shipping costs, cancel their Defense Department contracts, and investigate their business practices. As for the Washington Post, one source said that Trump maintains his view that the paper is a political weapon, sort of like what Trump thinks of the National Enquirer:

“When Bezos says he has no involvement, Trump doesn’t believe him. His experience is with the David Peckers of the world. Whether it’s right or wrong, he knows it can be done.”

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