A ‘p*ssed’ Trump called Jeff Bezos after learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/business/white-house-calls-report-that-amazon-is-adding-a-tariff-charge-a-hostile-action/index.html

The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with President Donald Trump putting in a call to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items.

Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company’s website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a “good call.”

“Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “He solved the problem very quickly. Good guy.”

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The call came shortly after one of the senior officials phoned the president to inform him of the story.

“Of course he was pissed,” one of the officials, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told CNN. “Why should a multibillion dollar company pass off costs to consumers?”

At a briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the move a “hostile and political act,” adding that she had spoken about the matter with President Trump earlier.

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Well that track with Trump.  Why would he get so pissed if he's so proud of his tariffs?  Would he not want to break them out of the cost and brag about them?

 

[DefiantMassRINO]

I see no issue with a tariff charge.  My frugality is not influenced by labels.  If it costs more, it costs more.

A tariff charge will make it clear what % of Amazon products fund the Chinese Communist Party.

Old farts like me still believe products are still made in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and America.

When I was kid, the only thing made in China was illegal fireworks.

Supply chain visibility will educate Americans about how our supply chains have over-concentrated risk.

It's cheaper to make everything in China when there are no human rights, no worker rights, no environmental regulations, and prices are set by the Chinese Communist Party.  The Chi-coms use their Nike porfits to subsidze selling solar panels at a loss to capture monopoly control over market supply.  That supply monopoly will later be used by the Chi-coms as leverage for geo-political extortion and coercion.

Ain't Globalism grand?

[LMAO]

Why would he get so pissed if he's so proud of his tariffs?  Would he not want to break them out of the cost and brag about them?

 

Because in private, they know the bullshit they’re trying to sell to the American people isn’t selling


They’re getting kicked in the groin  by economic reality



But it looks like the story  may not be true or Amazon backed down

[Smokin Joe]

I see no issue with a tariff charge.  My frugality is not influenced by labels.  If it costs more, it costs more.

A tariff charge will make it clear what % of Amazon products fund the Chinese Communist Party.

Old farts like me still believe products are still made in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and America.

When I was kid, the only thing made in China was illegal fireworks.

Supply chain visibility will educate Americans about how our supply chains have over-concentrated risk.

It's cheaper to make everything in China when there are no human rights, no worker rights, no environmental regulations, and prices are set by the Chinese Communist Party.  The Chi-coms use their Nike porfits to subsidze selling solar panels at a loss to capture monopoly control over market supply.  That supply monopoly will later be used by the Chi-coms as leverage for geo-political extortion and coercion.

Ain't Globalism grand?

Yep.