cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22391150
On April 29, after Amazon reportedly considered displaying an additional tariff charge next to the listed price on its Haul platform, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing held up a photo of Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos and called the move a “hostile and political act.” Trump, whom a senior official described as “pissed,” called Bezos to complain, saying the company’s founder “solved the problem very quickly.”
Amazon said that although it was considering displaying the tariff cost, the plan was ultimately not approved and “not going to happen.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers
Trump is so close to realizing that big corporations and billionaires are only there to extract as much wealth from its customers and employees as possible and that they don’t give a single crap about them. So close.