WASHINGTON ― The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon’s reported plans to list the prices of President Donald Trump‘s tariffs next to products the mega retailer sells online.
“I just got off the phone with the president about the Amazon announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at an April 29 briefing with reporters.
“Why did Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in four years?” she said, adding that “it’s not really a surprise” because “Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, joined by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.
Amazon’s decision to single out the cost of Trump’s tariffs on consumers, first reported by Punchbowl News, has set up a clash between Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has sought to curry favor with the new administration and met with Trump multiple times since his election win.
This combination of pictures created on March 11, 2025 shows Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC and US President Donald Trump at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on March 7, 2025.
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