Trump praised Jeff Bezos after Amazon denied a plan to show tariffs’ costs on their website.
President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about a news report that said the e-commerce giant would display the costs of the administration’s new tariffs to consumers, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation.
Amazon disputed the news report. In an emailed statement, company spokesman Tim Doyle said the team that runs Haul, Amazon’s low-cost Temu competitor, “has considered listing import charges on certain products.” But it “was never a consideration for the main Amazon site,” Doyle said, “and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.” In an updated statement later, the company said that “this was never approved and is not going to happen.”
Talking to reporters Tuesday afternoon, Trump praised Bezos and said the Amazon founder had done “the right thing.”
“Jeff Bezos is very nice. Terrific,” Trump said, according to a pool report. “He solved the problem very quickly. He did the right thing. Good guy.” (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Caption from article by Jeff Stein, Abha Bhattarai and Caroline O’Donovan.
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