Zohran Just NAILED Jeff Bezos

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]You know, folks, one of the weirdest things that I've seen here lately is Jeff Bezos out here in interviews talking about basically how hard he's got it. One of the richest guys in the world is out there looking for sympathy.

[00:00:12]And the crazy part is he will find it from MAGA from people who live hand-to-mouth and work every day and struggle to get by in this world.

[00:00:21]Somehow or another, they'll catch theirel pulling for a Jeff Bezos and saying, "Oh yeah, we can't tax Bezos. If we tax him more, it won't help nothing.

[00:00:29]It truly is one of the craziest things that I've ever witnessed. But here he is, and how can anyone watch this and feel one ounce of sympathy for Jeff Bezos? And and Elizabeth Warren has made this point repeatedly. I think she's made it in reference to you and others um are able to pay a lower tax rate even though you're paying an enormous sum in taxes, a lower tax rate than maybe I am.

[00:00:52]People uh sometimes say that uh that you know uh I don't pay taxes. So true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes and it's a per again if people want me to pay more billions, right?

[00:01:04]>> Then let's have that debate. But don't pretend you know that this that that's going to solve the problem. You could you could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you this is so you can't connect those two things. Not logically. uh you know there there there there are more examples. Why is rent expensive? Why is rent so expensive? I recently saw somebody blamed it on Airbnb. Okay, Airbnb is not the cause of expensive rent. In fact, it's been almost No, let me finish here one sec.

[00:01:36]It's already been outlawed right >> in uh New York City and rents are still very high. So, we know Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention.

[00:01:48]I always say that I'm never stunned when people like Bezos says these types of things. What stuns me is that they have an audience of people who will get behind them and cheer. And I will never understand those who go out of their way to stand up for someone like a Basos in this moment because I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I'm truly not. I barely graduated from a poor high school in Southeast Kentucky. Okay? I barely made it through by the skin of my teeth.

[00:02:13]And so I have enough common sense to know that if billionaires paid their fair share and that if they were taxed more that we would see a turnaround in this country, we would see their money.

[00:02:24]Also, not only would we see uh working people have a better hand to play in this world, but we would see them work for their money and it go right back to the people like Jeff Bezos. That's the part I don't understand. What do they think that working people is going to do with the money when they get it? They're going to spend it. when working people gets a break, they spend it. And I don't understand why that that's one of the hardest things for people to grasp. But luckily, we do have progressive candidates and progressive mayors out there who are calling this for what it is. And I'm going to play you a clip right here of Graham Platner.

[00:02:58]>> Oh, I think it's absolute nonsense. I think that's what somebody says when they don't want to see their taxes go up. There's absolutely no question that if we target the wealth where it has been hoarded, frankly, for decades at this point, and we pull it back into our system and put it into social programs like health care, like child care, like paying teachers what they are worth, we will absolutely improve the lives of working Americans, and quite frankly, improve our society as a whole. It's uh I think what he is pitching is propaganda. It's meant to protect himself and protect his crony friends.

[00:03:33]and uh we're going to come after them for it.

[00:03:37]>> It straight up is propaganda and these billionaires know it. And what's really crazy to me is you've got people in MAGA, people I grew up with, I hear them say this, they'll always refer to the Democrats as the elites. They'll say someone like Barack Obama is an elitist.

[00:03:52]But yet they'll get behind Donald Trump and cheer for him and all of his Epstein class Mara Lago friends. And when someone like Bezos goes out on a tour like this and starts talking about poor poor pitiful me, then people in my part of the world will never call him an elitist. They'll never say that. The only way they would call him that is if he didn't support Donald Trump. That's it. If he was someone who spoke out against Trump, if he was someone who used his money to help people, they would be roasting him every single day on social media. I guarantee it. But again, we've got progressives out there who are doing a good job. Mom Donnie is doing a doing a good job as the mayor right now of New York City. And he's another one who can see clearly through what Bezos is trying to do here. Take a look.

[00:04:39]>> Speaking of executives, uh Jeff Bezos told CNBC last week uh on taxes and obviously, you know, what you've said about affordability is looming in the background of this. He said, um that you could double his taxes and as he put it, quote, "It's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you. What was your response to to that comment from Jeff Bezos?

[00:05:00]>> You know, I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ. And I think that if I was worth as much money as he was, then I would probably say the same thing. The fact of the matter is that we are talking about a city where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty. And we're hearing from one of the richest men that our world has ever seen about how he and others who make that kind of money shouldn't have to pay their fair share. And frankly, what New Yorkers want to see is a tax system that recognizes the scale of this affordability crisis and actually provides a way for city government to be able to invest in those same New Yorkers in the manner that we used to decades ago.

[00:05:33]>> Do you know a Republican president that you will never hear MAGA ever bring up in a conversation? That was Dwight D.

[00:05:39]Eisenhower. He was my grandfather's favorite president. And uh I could honestly see why because uh back in those days under the Eisenhower administration the tax rate was 91%.

[00:05:52]That's what the rich were being taxed back then. And Dwight Eisenhower was able to build the interstate system across this country. And he was one of the ones that said what I was saying earlier. Whereas if we tax the rich and give the working class a break and give them, you know, work to do, you will get your money back. It's not about trickle down economics. It's about boomerang economics. If you throw a boomerang, it comes back to you. And it's pretty much that simple in this world. I don't see how Jeff Bezos could say that with a straight face unless he's just someone who's another rich, greedy billionaire wanting a break. And he's buddies with Donald Trump these days and so he figures he'll get it. And I know a lot of you said, "How's he buddies with Donald Trump?" Well, there's no way you could say what he says in this next clip with a straight face unless you were trying to suck up to Donald Trump.

[00:06:42]>> Um, when I last interviewed you about two years ago, >> President Trump had just won. He was not the president yet.

[00:06:49]>> And I had asked you what you thought of him at the time.

[00:06:52]>> And you said that you thought that he had mellowed, >> that he was calmer.

[00:06:56]>> Yeah.

[00:06:56]>> And I'm curious now here we are. Yeah.

[00:06:59]Uh, >> I still think that >> two two years later, we've had lots of uh we have wars and tariffs and all sorts of things that have happened since then. What do you think?

[00:07:07]>> I think he has. I mean, I'm comparing him to his first term.

[00:07:11]>> And I think he is a a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah. There's no world in which he thinks that's true. That is someone literally with his nose buried as deep in Donald Trump's ass as he can possibly get it. That's what that is. because Donald Trump is more unhinged and off the rails than ever before. As a matter of fact, I was just telling a friend of mine the other day, I was like, you know, I was like, his first term was hectic, but it was more laid-back compared to this. There is no way that anyone could say that with a straight face unless they themselves were looking for a handout from Donald Trump. And that's what I do believe that Basos is doing. It's crazy to me that he would say that, but it's even more crazy that people would get behind it and think that, yeah, if we tax these billionaires, then we won't be able to have anything in this world. It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen is watching people pull for billionaires who wouldn't wipe their noses on their Sunday best, who wouldn't let them park their pickup truck outside their home.

[00:08:11]You know, it's it's crazy to me, but they learned how to work these people.

[00:08:16]And I use the word work because yeah, I grew up watching pro wrestling and to me everything is an angle and everything is a work. And uh I do believe that what you're seeing from Donald Trump, he played working people against their own interest. And I think billionaires like Bezos seen that and said, "Hey, if it worked for Trump, I can make it work."

[00:08:35]And that's something that I feel is going to be even more dangerous as we go. Right now, we've got Trump, he's unhinged, he's off the rails, and he's a blithering idiot. But if we ever got someone who was really intelligent and could also work that crowd and be that cult of personality at the same time, well, we'd be completely screwed.

[00:08:56]But I want to thank y'all so much for sticking with me here on the channel. Uh I know that my voice sounds different.

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[00:09:30]We'll keep calling this stuff out, but listen, these billionaires don't care about you, and they're working you. No different than the wrestler who worked you into a, you know, they worked you into it and they were behind the scenes laughing every way to every step of the way to the bank with their with their opponent. We were sitting there getting all worked up about it and they were laughing all the way to the bank. To me, Bezos and Trump are no different than those guys. Actually, they are. Those guys, at least those guys back in the day were just decent dudes that was trying to make a living in a certain form of entertainment. Donald Trump and Basos Basos is completely messing with people's lives and it's a disgrace.