Jeff Bezos is on maneuvers to try and replace Elon Musk as Donald Trump’s preferred billionaire – but the president is playing it cool, it is claimed. 

The pair have spoken at least twice this month, with Trump even having received a visit from the CEO of Bezos’ astronautics company Blue Origin, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bezos is getting married to fiancée Lauren Sanchez in Venice Friday evening. The lovebirds invited President Trump to the wedding, but he turned them down. 

Trump cried ‘scheduling conflicts,’ but it has been speculated that he may be enjoying serving up some ice-cold revenge for an earlier Bezos move. 

The president reportedly phoned up Bezos in a fury in April after learning Amazon planned to display how much Trump’s tariffs had added to the cost of every item sold on its website.. 

Daily Mail has approached the White House for comment. 

There was one strong Trump connection at the Venice nuptials.  

First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are among the A-listers attending the Amazon founder and Lauren Sanchez’s lavish $20 million wedding in Venice this weekend. 

Trump and Musk’s friendship exploded at the start of this month after the pair locked horns over the president’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, which the Tesla billionaire claims will batter the economy – while also impacting his businesses.

Musk turned on Trump in a stunning series of X posts, linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and digging up old tweets that warn against such expenditure.

The president furiously hit back, threatening to rip away billions in government contracts and subsidies to the former DOGE leader’s businesses.

Musk then threatened to ‘immediately’ remove SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft from service, despite it being essential for America’s space initiatives.

Trump’s former First Buddy ultimately admitted he had gone ‘too far’, but Bezos – who has long clashed with Musk over the race to space – seemingly saw his in.

He reached reached out to Trump just days after the public blow-up with Musk. 

Trump has told Bezos, who attended his inauguration in January, that he wants to send a crew to the moon during his Oval Office term, sources told WSJ.

Federal space exploration contacts handed to Musk’s SpaceX have been credited with making him the world’s richest man with a $412 billion fortune.

Bezos almost certainly realizes that befriending Trump may increase the chances of Blue Origin being handed some of the lucrative contracts, which could help swell his $227 billion fortune that makes him the world’s third-richest man. 

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp also met with White House Chief of Susie Wiles in mid-June, the insiders added.

The apparent schmoozing goes beyond Bezos, with his new bride having seemingly tried to inch her way into the Trump family’s inner circle.

Sanchez struck up a friendship with Ivanka in June last year after they both attended Kim Kardashian’s birthday party in Beverly Hills.

They’re now neighbors on the exclusive Indian Creek island in Miami.

Bezos and Sanchez own three of the 40 lots in the gated compound, worth $237 million, and announced in 2023 they were abandoning Seattle and making Miami their permanent home.

Sanchez is also friends with Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend Bettina Anderson.

Anderson lavished praise on Sanchez after her much-mocked space jaunt with Katy Perry, calling her ‘my incredible friend’.

The familial ties are even inter-generational with Sanchez’s son Evan Whitesell slated start at the University of Miami alongside Don Jr’s daughter Kai Trump this fall.