Trump personally complained to Jeff Bezos about Amazon

When President Donald Trump heard that Amazon was considering showing the additional cost of tariffs in certain articles, putting their impact on the complete exhibition, he personally called Jeff Bezos to complain, several media outlets reported on Tuesday.

“Of course I was angry,” said a tall White House official on Trump to CNN. “Why should a multimillionaire company pass costs to consumers?”

The sources also confirmed the call between Trump and the founder of Amazon with CNBC and politician.

Trump’s outrage may have worked. Shortly after the call, Amazon issued a statement minimizing the planned plan for the first time by PunchBowl News, which would have involved showing the amount in dollars that the rates have added to the price of an item next to its total price.

The agreement “was never a consideration for the main site of Amazon and nothing has been implemented in any Amazon property,” said a company statement.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also spoke some hard words for Amazon during a press conference on Tuesday, calling the plan a “hostile political action.”

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Not long after the reported call took place, a company spokesman said the idea had been completely withdrawn.

“The team that runs our Amazon Haul store of Ultra low cost considered the idea of ​​listing import positions on certain products,” said spokesman Tim Doyle in a statement to News themezone. “This was never approved and will not happen.”

Amazon Haul is the Spin -off site of the company that sells items of $ 20 or less.

The 145% Trump rate on China is scheduled to have a great impact on the costs of consumer goods in the US. And has already sent the stock market to a descending spiral.

The president has defended rates as an unpleasant need, saying earlier this month that “sometimes you have to take medications to fix something.”

The setback of tariffs, that economists and financial leaders have said that they can cause a recession, is a delicate issue for Trump, whose popularity can depend on them.

A CNN survey found on Monday that a growing majority of Americans believes that Trump’s policies have worsened the economy. Fifty -five percent of respondents said so far, the president’s actions on tariffs have been a bad policy, and only 28% called them good policy.

As the setback has mounted, Trump has suggested that he wants to negotiate with China to reduce tariffs, saying last week that “145% is very high and that it will not be so high. It will not be so high.”

“It will fall substantially, but it will not be zero,” he added.