Trump's FTC pick, Joseph Simons, is not an antitrust hipster

It's also another sign that Trump's occasional vows to crack down on particular tech companies like Amazon and NBC (which is owned by Comcast)--generally following coverage he didn't like--are not likely pan out. Remember, in May of last year when Trump chastised Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post: "He thinks I'll go after him for antitrust. Because he's got a huge antitrust problem because he's controlling so much, Amazon is controlling so much of what they are doing." But even from a president whose chief policy motivation seems to be spite, trustbusting by a Republican administration--actually, from just about any modern administration--was probably never likely.