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Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu O'Lorreniko with the Washington Post.

Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me in the post.

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This is Post Reports. I'm Nicole Ellis.

It's Monday, August 17th.

Today, Inside Trump's obsession with the Postal Service,

what young black voters want, and why hunting and fishing groups are pushing for action on climate change.

President Trump's relationship to the Postal Service is contentious.

It's hostile, and it is now front and center of every election news cycle.

My name is Ashley Parker, and I cover the White House for the Washington Post.

His animosity towards the Postal Service started soon after he took office in 2017.

He immediately sort of seized on the Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy of government.

He would privately to aid call it a loser.

The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars every year for many, many years.

He did not like it because it was a business that lost money, and then very quickly his animosity turns to disliken the Postal Service because of how he associates it with Amazon.

I'll tell you who's the demise of the Postal Service, are these internet companies that give their stuff to the Postal Service packages.

And I don't know why they're not, you know, I don't run the Postal Service.

You have a group of people, so-called independent people, and they run it.

But these packages are, they deliver, they lose money every time they deliver a package for Amazon or these other internet companies, these other companies that deliver.

He believes incorrectly that the Postal Service is giving Amazon a sweetheart deal and is losing money because it's helping Amazon.

And he does not like Amazon because of another misconception, which is Jeff Bezos owns Amazon.

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