Bezos Invades Trump’s Backyard

Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 14, 2018

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Amazon is the new king of Queens, where you-know-who got his start in real estate.

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So when you look at the two places Amazon picked for its new semi-headquarters, an admittedly conspiratorial case could be made that after all the high anxiety of the selection process, Mr. Bezos picked Queens, N.Y., and Arlington, Va., as a big you-know-what to Donald Trump.

Queens is where Mr. Trump grew up and where his father Fred got his start in the business that became the Trump empire. As of this week, Mr. Bezos is the new king of Queens, wallowing in more New York tax subsidies than the Trump Organization ever dreamed of when building its gold-plated towers. Mr. Trump may never set foot in Queens again so long as the Amazon logo looms like an ISIS flag planted in his lost homeland.

Meanwhile, if you look out from the White House and down across the Potomac River, you can catch a glimpse of the great commercial white elephant called Crystal City in Arlington, Va. All of a sudden in President Trump’s backyard, Mr. Bezos is the most famous, if not the biggest, real-estate developer in the Washington area. ...