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Amazon sells many products from China and the prices are going to go up as the 145% tariff cuts in. Jeff Bezos doesn't want people to blame Amazon, so he was considering breaking out how much of the price of each item is product and how much is tariff, so customers would see that the price increases were Donald Trump's fault, not his.
When Donald Trump got word of this, he pitched a fit. Bezos got the message real fast and caved, saying that he had no intention of showing how much of each price was tariff. He seems to have forgotten that Trump is his king and he is a vassal. Of course, the management of Amazon's first duty is to shareholders, and shareholders will be hurt if people blame the site for a spike in prices, and take their business elsewhere (or just don't buy anywhere). We guess Bezos forgot that.
Trump is rightly worried that if people who shop on Amazon a lot are constantly reminded that he is the one responsible for their economic worries, it will be a disaster for him. But it is probably already too late. An NBC/Marist College poll released yesterday showed that 60% of Americans already blame the current economic problems on Trump. Only 39% blame Joe Biden.
This is not normal. In Jan. 2018, a year into Trump v1.0, only 40% thought the economic conditions were result of his policies. Now after only 3 months, more than half the country thinks so. If the economy tanks shortly when the tariffs really start kicking in, Trump is going to get the blame. He is clearly already very sensitive to that. (V)