White House: Amazon is Hostile and Political

How? Wtf?

That are such babies.

Why is it hostile, KKKaroline?

“Truth and facts are our enemies! Stop showing people how we are hurting them!!!” —Republican politicians

Team Bezos! Fuck Trump!

Amazon should take one for the team and accept responsibility for rising prices.

Or else.

Why shouldn't we know the true price of the goods we are purchasing?

Walmart! Are you listening? Get on board!

If the tariffs are working, then why be worried about exposing the costs? Show us how lovely the tariffs are, Karoline! Show us how the US is winning!

What’s next? Charging sales tax separately?

I love this and hope every retailer in America does it.

You have to love Republicans. They chastise anyone and everyone for wanting to interfere with private enterprises.

But, when they run things, they have no problem dictating to private enterprises how they should be run.

This really is another feel good story, and you know I love feel good stories.

They are all going down in flames. These Trump cunts and nazis. I can't wait.

But Trump told me tariffs are paid by the exporters!

R6 = Trump in a failed attempt to win his argument, ONCE AGAIN!

Well, if there is anyone who would know from a "hostile act" it is White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Like Bezos gives a fuck- he is obviously pissed at Trump

The only thing stupider than the statement is telling people about the statement.

More than that, R18, he sees blood in the water and is no longer afraid of pissing off Trump.

What's your point R10? I'm looking at a sales receipt right now, and the sales tax is noted separately from the item.

So what's your point?

All Trump's american oligarch new buddies must hate him and they should. He shook them all down for millions of dollars. Right out in the open. So far only Harvard has told Trump to go fuck himself.

I think they’re being funny, Rose.

This is great. There is NOTHING the White House can do except have these tantrums, if companies such as Amazon want to add a "Tariff cost" line to their pricing. I can't fault them for wanting to let customers know it's not the company's fault that the desired $40 item is now $60 because of the Trump Tariffs.

The GOP House and Senate seems to be afraid of Trump personally, but these big-company CEOs and senior execs are not.

Is Amazon talking about listing the actual tariff paid per unit on finished products imported directly from other countries or about calculating the contributory cost of tariffs on various components? And would the latter be a straightforward calculation?

It would be nice to know the answer to these questions. I think it would undermine Leavitt’s assertion that disclosing the impact of inflation during Biden’s term is analogous.

[Quote] Why shouldn't we know the true price of the goods we are purchasing?

Hoodwinking people is the entire Republican playbook.

[quote] but these big-company CEOs and senior execs are not

It sure didn't seem that way when they were all groveling, making huge "donations," and eviscerating the editorial policies of the Washington Post.

KKKaroline is in way over her head. She'll be replaced within the year.

Sylvia/R27, well yeah, but that wasn't fear. They naively thought they'd be living on easy street under Trump 2.0, like in 2017-2019.

Fuck Bezos, he should have never kowtowed to the Crazy orange madman in the 1st place.

Fucking asshole wonky eyed mutha fucker dickhead.

R18, I was actually quite surprised at the myriad of anti-Trump articles and comments that have been printed in the WaPo since they supposedly changed their editorial policy.

Bezos isn't standing in the way of the folks going after Trump, that's for sure!

So I guess I'm glad I renewed my subscription after all.

He should t have, PhillyWhore, but he’s not the only one. And we need these heavy hitters to reverse their support now, before we see empty shelves next month. Although I think it might be too late.

^^^According to my "Overseas old fuckbuddies" in Taiwan, it's already too late for that.^^^

It's "not happening." Bezos pusses out. Good thing I rarely get anything from Amazon anymore.

From what I’m reading, this is an unfounded rumor based on some spitballing at an Amazon meeting. But KKKaroline took the bait, and now Bezos can see just that the million bucks he donated to Trump’s inauguration couldn’t even buy him a phone call for verification.

Seems like the acquiescence is complete. Bezos is going to regret his caving. People will stop buying mountains of shit until this is fixed, post Trump. People love and need cheap products but they won't have the cash to pay double the price.

Trump blackmailed the law firms, and Facebook. Facebook faces anti-trust actions. What does Trump have on Bezos to make him bend?

She’s one special kind of kunt.

I thought liberals HATE Bezos, frantically closing their Amazon accounts recently?

I like KKKarolines response - why didn’t amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation! First, he didn’t hike anything. And second, you just admitted that Dump did something that’s hiking prices.

I've seem other companies have a Tariff tax on it's receipts. Why hide it??

Seems Amazon has disclaimed the possibility.

Of course Amazon backed down. I knew it sounded to good to be true. Most people, though, don't need to see the tariff cost listed to know they're paying almost double what they used to on similar items. Amazon will suffer for sure.

Well, shit. At least Amazon got part of what they wanted: customers to be aware and to understand. Now it's headline news and will be commonly understood that when their prices surge, they wanted to put a line item about the Trump Tariffs but TRUMP GOT MAD and so they didn't, that's why customers will just see the price increase. But everybody will know and understand the reason.

[quote]Leavitt said she had just spoken to President Donald Trump about the Amazon announcement and that his message about it was: "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."

Those words certainly have a Stephen Miller ring to them!

[quote]More than that, [R18], he sees blood in the water and is no longer afraid of pissing off Trump.

Well, scratch that. Bezos' bout of testicular fortitude lasted about 15 minutes.

First, the rumor started because Shein and Temu were putting the "import fees" on their line-item pricing. Apparently the idiots who run Amazon Haul thought about it for a second and decided against (don't want to piss off the orange tyrant), but it leaked and some rando-new-to-the-WH press pool ran with it. (Side note: sure is good that responsible journalists at the AP have been blocked from the WH press room!)

Nevertheless, consumers are about to feel the pain. And what they think is going to be short term pain that will result in long term gain is anything but short term — prices are quick to escalate but slower than cold molasses to decline — and there will be no long term gain [italic]except for the Chinese.[/italic] They are poised to gain market share, specifically on Amazon but elsewhere as well, as the tariffs devastate America's small businesses. Scholarly research bears this out:

[quote]Chinese sellers have structural advantages that tariffs cannot address. Many are either manufacturers themselves or have a closer proximity to manufacturing than American businesses. They benefit from Chinese government support through export subsidies and tax rebates. And they’ve become increasingly sophisticated in marketplace operations through years of platform experience... While tariff advocates cite short-term pain for long-term gain, diverting even a small percentage of Chinese manufacturing back to the U.S. would take years. However, the impact on American e-commerce businesses is both immediate and potentially devastating.

[quote]Unprecedented tariff rates are forcing domestic e-commerce businesses into impossible choices: scrambling for emergency capital at predatory interest rates, abandoning shipments they can’t afford to clear, or attempting to raise prices in an already price-sensitive market. Without imminent policy changes, many face the threat of bankruptcy. Ironically, these are the very businesses these tariffs were ostensibly designed to protect.

[quote]The data points to a familiar outcome: higher prices for American consumers, complex supply chain disruptions, bankruptcies among domestic sellers, and minimal impact on the marketplace dynamics that have led to Chinese seller dominance. Tariffs won’t save the American share of e-commerce and may well accelerate its decline.

And so, once again, the Trump administration's policies hurt Americans and boost foreigners. Brilliant! That's how you make America great again... right? Right?!?!

R44 No "everybody" will not know that. People are stupid and uninformed and live in echo chambers. Do you think Fox News is going to explain this 25 times a day? It will not. Price hikes will be blamed on anyone but Trump.

You have not been paying attention.

Why is everyone caving in to this idiot?

Hmmm what Chinese stocks should we buy?

^ Alibaba sucks

I didn’t hate Bezos until the Trump closeness. He seemed like a dick, greedy and tacky but Amazon is a good business that’s providing people with something they want. It was the first of its kind. At least he came up with something new and useful.

Bezos is such a pussy. Whatever happened to having “Fuck you money”? $200 billion and you’re still acting like a bitch?

I couldn't have said that better myself!

R53:

Even the biggest MAGas know the tariffs will lead to higher prices, They’ll just believe the bs that jobs will come back to the US and make it worth it. In a way, it’s better for Amazon to cave. Now Trump can’t go crazy blaming fake news but everyone will still know the truth.

You're generous. Please remember that MAGATS voted in a RACIST, CRIMINAL, RAPIST, GRIFTING LYING LOSER and they don't seem to know any of those things, really. They know but they don't know.

MAGAs voted in Trump to fuck with the libs. But Trump 2 is not working out for them.

Also, Bezos doesn't want the world to know that he and Amazon will make more money when prices go up. Of every dollar you spend, Amazon gets 15 cents off the top (with the exception of a few categories like expensive watches). So when a seller's costs go up by $1.70, he has to raise his price by $2 to break even.

Not sure about that. If the price alone goes up, Bezos makes more money. If the price stays the same but here is a 100% tarif, Bezos/Amazon will not get 15% of the tariff.

Yeah, Amazon only makes more money on products if and when their profit margin increases, either due to reducing cost or taking advantage of consumer demand. This tariff situation is entirely different. Trump is forcing somebody to dig deep and pay, and it won’t be China and it won’t be Amazon.