A Punchbowl News report that the Amazon It will start “soon” to display the cost of US duties on individual products next to the total indicated price, it was enough to set fire to the White House.
White House spokesman Caroline Levitt, on the occasion of the report, made statements about Amazon’s “political attack” and “propaganda from China”.
“Why didn’t Amazon have done so when the Biden government increased inflation to the highest level of the last 40 years?” Levit asked.
Levit has even shown a report in which Jeff Bezos had recently been described as a “arm of Chinese propaganda” and stressed that he was unable to answer whether Jeff Bezos remains a supporter of Donald Trump as he is a person.
According to international reports, the report made the US president furious.
However, the truth came to restore the company a little later. Since he argued that “Americans have the right to know. It’s not political. It is reasonable, ”he denied plans for duty costs on its products.
“The team that manages the extremely low -cost Amazon Haul store has examined the idea of listing the import fees on some products,” the company said in a statement. “The teams are discussing ideas all the time. This has never been a thought for Amazon’s main website and nothing has been applied to any Amazon ownership. “
However, this brief conflict was enough to reveal evidence of a cracking relationship between Bezos and Trump, as Amazon’s founder loses many billion dollars from imposing duties, taking clear distances from the Oval Office.
And this, despite the fact that, along with other billionaires and technology leaders, approached the Republican president after his 2024 victory, with Amazon donating $ 1 million to Trump’s swearing -in fund in December.
This development was enough to drive Amazon’s shares to retreat today (29.4.2025) to 2.1% when opening the transactions in New York after the White House comments, before limiting losses.