Amazon shares are up 8% since Donald Trump was elected, but the company has had a tense relationship with the president-elect.

R. Kroon, he's taking a deeper look into what a second time in the White House might mean for the e-commerce giant this morning.

Hey, Kate.

Hey, Carl. Yeah, so there's a lot to really consider and to handicap for what president-elect Trump might mean for Amazon.

But this time around a key piece of friction

with the company.

And Trump has been eased.

That is the relationship with Jeff Bezos, as Amazon's founder.

He's no longer CEO, and he's seemingly buried the hatchet at this point, congratulating

Trump on what he called an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory in pushing the controversial move at his newspaper, The Washington Post, to not endorse a presidential candidate just weeks before the election.

Bezos was an outspoken critic of Trump.

You might remember that who accused Amazon of not paying its fair share of taxes and then abusing the postal system,

hurting small businesses, and other criticisms.

There was also the Pentagon contract that ended up going to Microsoft, which Amazon sued

over saying that was a result of bias in the White House.

Trump slammed Bezos-owned Washington Post as well.

Many times, analysts that I'm talking to say this relationship can only get better from

here. They hope that the current CEO, Andy Jassy, is more diplomatic, a little less controversial,

and less of a target for Trump. Jassy also took to X and to social media to congratulate Trump as well.

And despite some tough rhetoric we've heard around tech and big tech, Dan Ives at least thinks that

Amazon could be more immune

from a lot of that criticism because it is not a social media company. Companies like Meta and Google

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