Jeff and Donald
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the business interests and private passions of one of the world’s richest men collide with the world’s most powerful man? This is the story of Jeff Bezos...and Donald Trump.
Reporter: Stephen Armstrong
Producer: Katie Gunning
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello, it's Claudia here and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. |
| 0:14.9 | This week, what happens when the business interests and private passions of one of the world's richest men collide |
| 0:22.6 | with the world's most powerful man. My colleague Stephen Armstrong tells the story of Jeff |
| 0:29.2 | Bezos and Donald Trump. It's quite a journey and it begins on an island in the Venice Lagoon. |
| 0:40.3 | It's like a tiny island, it's like three minutes by boat. |
| 0:43.3 | Just opposite San Marco is like a perfect location because you can have an amazing view. |
| 0:48.3 | The island of San Giorgio. Picture perfect. Almost timeless. So there is a church and a big garden and there is an amphitheater. |
| 0:59.0 | There are rumors that they're going to become married maybe in the church, maybe in the |
| 1:04.0 | amphitheater. We don't know yet. |
| 1:05.0 | Caroline Rapese is an Italian photojournalist. |
| 1:09.0 | She's been researching the impact of Jeff Bezos and his |
| 1:11.6 | soon-to-be bride Lauren Sanchez, hosting their nuptials on this island. The details of this |
| 1:18.1 | lavish affair are strangely compelling when set against his first marriage in 1983 to |
| 1:25.4 | Mackenzie Tuttle, an admin assistant at the hedge fund where he worked. |
| 1:30.2 | They tied the knot at the faux Renaissance Breakers Hotel, a resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, |
| 1:36.2 | where McKenzie's parents lived. |
| 1:42.3 | In photos from Pack then, Jeff McKenzie are kind of adorable. |
| 1:46.0 | He's skinny in loose sweatshirts with a goofy smile, while she has short, tousled hair and wears patterned red tops. |
| 1:54.0 | Neither have great teeth. |
| 1:57.0 | These days, Jeff Bezos seems ridiculous. |
| 2:01.6 | He's 61, he's divorced his wife, he spent so many hours pumping himself up at the gym, |
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