Amazon and Consumer Products Implications of the Trump-President Abelian Prime Minister’s “Hospital Supply Chain”, tweeted by Karoline Leavitt
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped in to say that she had just discussed this story with President Trump. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” she said.
Trump told reporters later in the day that Bezos “did the right thing” after the president called him to discuss the reported plan for Amazon to show how tariff costs were increasing prices.
“The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products,” Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle said in a statement. This was never approved and is not going to happen.
Companies that import products from other countries warn that the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration could cause prices to go up for Americans.
Consumers should try to buy products made in the U.S. according to a quote from the article by Leavitt. “It’s another reason why we are onshoring critical supply chains here at home, to shore up our own critical supply chain and boost our own manufacturing here.”
The Bezos-owned Washington Post hasn’t stopped Advending a Candidate for the 2016 Presidential Primary. But a King Will Win
Bezos has been seen as supportive of Trump. Amazon donated to Trump’s inauguration fund, and Bezos attended the ceremony in January. Last year, the management of the Bezos-owned Washington Post declined to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 36 years. As NPR reported at the time, the announcement came after the newspaper’s editorial page editor had approved an endorsement for Trump’s rival, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
“We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics, but we won’t publish viewpoints against those pillars, that’s for sure. Our country didn’t get here because of being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.”
Well buddy, chaotic ChatGPT-designed tariff schemes that threaten to crush small businesses across the country are not “free markets,” the basic definition of which requires the market to set prices, not unhinged madmen who believe they run the world. The Post threatening your baby for simply showing price information is so far from free markets that I would expect it to be full attack mode here.
What of retribution, you might ask? Shouldn’t Jeff act in the best interests of his shareholders and bow to our would-be king, as Amazon is already doing? Let’s ask Jeff — here’s what he wrote to readers in regards to how his wealth affects the editorial decisions of the Post, with my emphasis added.
You can either see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation or as a web of conflicting interests. I can only help tip the balance from one side to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasn’t happened.
