President Donald Trump said he talked to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday shortly after a report claimed that the e-commerce giant was going to show the cost of tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
Trump said that Bezos “solved the problem very quickly” after Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was planning to display tariff costs. Shortly after the Punchbowl News report was published, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted Amazon, calling its reported move “hostile and political.” Amazon responded to the report Tuesday morning, denying that it was planning to show tariff costs on its main website.
“Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly, and he did the right thing,” Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One Tuesday afternoon. “He’s a good guy.”
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