The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with President Donald Trump putting in a call to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items.
Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company's website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a "good call."
"Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific," Trump told reporters on Tuesday. "He solved the problem very quickly. Good guy."
Some really quick (and cowardly) knee-bending there, Jeffy. Even the Wall Street Journal was not amused.
Bezos never unbent the knees. The idea was dead before FLOSS was
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That may have been the plan all along. Keep the big lie going.
Eck!
Bezos has to keep the petulant six-year-old appeased and distracted for his non-Amazon businesses looking for a lucrative government contract.
ReplyDeleteMy DigiKey orders and receipts for electronic components and etc have a charge line explicitly for tariffs. Over the years it has really added up to a lot of cash I could have used for other items.
ReplyDeleteBut, OTOH, I wouldn't want to be a billionaire genuflecting wimp and copout like Bezos.