Let them eat tariffs: Trump White House rejects blame for rising prices

Published May 30, 2025 6:02am ET



“A hostile and political act.” Those were the words White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used in a late April briefing to discuss something Amazon was reportedly considering.

A new line item at the website’s checkout might show customers how much the price of any given item was being increased by Leavitt’s boss, President Donald Trump, with his broad, ever-shifting, and multitiered tariffs.

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