WASHINGTON—In a splashy Tuesday morning scoop, Punchbowl News revealed that Amazon would start displaying how much an item’s cost had derived from tariffs next to the product’s total listed price. By noon, Jeff Bezos had backed down.
In the hours in between, Bezos received a private blasting from President Donald Trump, which happened to come just after he took a very public one from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt took her briefing room podium ready for the question: she had an article printed out that showed Bezos beneath the headline “Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm.”
“I’ll take this question since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon’s announcement,” Leavitt said from the podium. “This was a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the…
