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Chapter 1: What outrage surrounds Jeff Bezos and the Met Gala?
All right, we are in New York City at the IHIP News studios. I am joined by our producers, Kylie and Ryan, and we are outraged. I mean, absolutely outraged at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos Met Gala. And we are not the only ones outraged. It is being met with fierce backlash from Hollywood. Let's pop this up, Kylie.
Bella Hadid joins Zendaya and more A-listers in skipping Jeff Bezos-backed Met Gala 2026. Ryan notes here that Meryl Streep also will not be attending reportedly because of Bezos' involvement with the event.
Chapter 2: Which celebrities are boycotting the Jeff Bezos-backed Met Gala?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bezos and Sanchez paid at least $10 million to be involved in the event, the first time a billionaire couple replaced a fashion house as the primary sponsor, which is so pathetic.
Chapter 3: How has Jeff Bezos' wealth impacted Amazon workers?
Amazon has already laid off 14,000 workers this year and they have record profits and Jeff Bezos' net worth has just insurmountably grown because of Donald Trump and because of his bending the knee to Donald Trump.
And let's make these same billionaires who can afford to essentially buy the Met Gala pay their fair share instead of cutting lifeline services like teachers pay, libraries, social workers, and food assurance. Kylie, are you going to the Met Gala? I'm not going, not just because I wasn't invited. If I was invited, I still would not go. Good. And Ryan, are you going to the Met Gala?
My invite got lost in the mail, but no, I think that this is one of those events that's cultural events. It's quickly losing its relevance and people are just so fed up with how rich these billionaires are getting. And with Jeff Bezos being a sponsor, I just can't see why someone would want to go to be honest.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of billionaires sponsoring cultural events?
I really, you guys, I can't wrap my head around that you're that wealthy and they've got everything on the planet that they could ever want materially. And what they don't want, they're buying. $10 million, we're going to be the sponsors of the Met Gala. So they're buying their way into this inner circle.
i think what disgusts me so much are the people who are still going to go the people who see all of the wealth inequality they see that the trump regime powered by amazon powered by palantir are shooting people in Minneapolis are rounding up kids, rounding up adults, separating families and putting them in these concentration camps. And to me, this isn't just passive support for Trump.
The fact that Bezos put his name on this, any celebrity that goes, in my opinion, it is an active endorsement of MAGA and Trumpism. And we just can't look at it any other way. This is fascist collaboration.
Chapter 5: How do attendees of the Met Gala affect public perception?
and they are fascist collaborators. What do y'all think? Is that too bold of me or do you think?
I completely agree. I think in this day and age, it's like what we learned about how to fight racism as white people, right? It's not enough to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist and call it out. And so anyone that's not saying shit, that's still going to these events, honestly, that's going in a rocket ship up into space and coming back down.
I think they're saying to people that they're okay with what Trump is doing.
Ryan?
Chapter 6: What role does the fashion industry play in societal issues?
You know, as much as I love seeing what everyone's wearing on the Met Gala red carpet and, you know, I have watched in the past, I think this will probably be the first year where I'm checked out and, you know, ICE uses Amazon's technology and cloud and facial recognition. We've seen what's going on with ICE in this country.
There was just another damning report, I believe it was the Washington Post today, about how brutal these people are treated in these facilities. So, no.
be watching i think i i think that if you go to this based on jeff bezos based on lauren sanchez and they are total fascists they're not just fascist collaborators they are fascists the bezoses are and i think these celebrities that can't just sit this out and go stand with workers and stand with regular new yorkers um i i think shame on them and here is um a clip of amazon workers
an Amazon worker calling out Jeff Bezos. Play the clip.
Bezos, my name is Mary Hill. I'm a 72-year-old warehouse worker at one of your facilities.
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Chapter 7: How is the current political climate influencing cultural events?
When we struggle from paycheck to paycheck, from week to week, we need Angers me because if it weren't for every associate in every Amazon facility, he wouldn't have all those zeros behind his name. Shame on you, Jeff Bezos. The people that need to be being celebrated at the Met Gala are the workers. I stand with her.
I mean, I just, I'm with her. I'm with her all day, every day. It is just such a travesty that you have people that are celebrating these thirst trap, broken, empty billionaires that have to buy their way into relevance. who cannot stand up for her. And we are celebrating the villains who are firing, you know, 14, 15,000 people.
Chapter 8: What actions are being taken to support workers over billionaires?
He's notorious for union busting. He's notorious for just overt greed and not to mention the stuff that you mentioned in the Washington Post article, denying people freedom and due process because of ICE. And so every celebrity that goes to the Met Gala, we'll do a roll call tomorrow morning, rest assured. It will not slip by on our watch, but it's just horrific.
And Mayor Mamdani is breaking tradition and will not be attending tonight's Met Gala, choosing to highlight those behind the scenes instead. Let's pop this up. The fashion industry is made possible by the thousands of workers behind the scenes, seamstresses, tailors, retail workers, delivery drivers, whose immense talent and dedication deserves to be celebrated.
Mayor Zoran Mamdani tells ID exclusively. Ryan, what were you gonna say?
One thing I just wanna note about that video that we just showed before, that woman's 72 years old. She's out there breaking her back, delivering for Jeff Bezos. And the way that Amazon treats its employees, There are reports of people being made to pee into water bottles because they don't have enough time to take a bathroom break. You know, I'm not going to lie.
I'm guilty of ordering on Amazon myself. But it's just horrible. And these people deserve to be treated better than that.
especially considering the disparity between how much he makes and how much the employees make. If Jeff Bezos paid taxes, if Jeff Bezos gave his workers a livable wage, he would still be rich AF. Right, Kylie? I mean, it's just it's so greedy.
Ten million dollars is a drop in the bucket.
Totally. 100% agree. All of these billionaires, what is it? They could give away like 999 billion, still have a billion dollars, which we can't even fathom how much a billion dollars is. So again, it's back to, it's a choice. They're doing, they know what they're doing.
And I think Zorin Mamdani is setting an example. I think when you have politicians that make you think and make you strive to be a better person, like you, I can be vapid and I love the fashion houses of it and all the glitz and glam of it. Guilty as charged. I love all of that stuff. I love looking at beautiful people dressed in beautiful clothing. Call me shallow. Guilty as charged.
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