Is the White House afraid of its own tariffs?

Published April 29, 2025 1:53pm ET



Amazon, the nation’s third-largest employer behind only the U.S. federal government and Walmart, planned to list the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on some products, per a Tuesday report. The Jeff Bezos-led megacorporation imports vast numbers of its products from China, the country hit with an astronomical 145% tariff on imports.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press corps that she had spoken to Trump, and his response was that “this is a hostile and political act by Amazon.”

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