“Key word here: ‘could have’ given,” Colbert commented, before referring to Bezos as an “obscenely rich plutocrat who hoards wealth”.
Bezos is being replaced by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, will Bezos will be the executive chairman of the Amazon board.
Bezos is currently the richest person in the world, according to Forbes’s real-time billionaires list, with a net worth of $195.6bn.
Colbert broached the topic on Tuesday’s episode of his Late Show, hours after it was announced that Amazon will get a new CEO in the third quarter of 2021.