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The White House took aim at Amazon on Tuesday after the e-commerce giant reportedly prepared to directly display to consumers the price increases associated with President Donald Trump’s tariffs—with Trump calling Amazon founder Jeff Bezos personally to complain—but the retailer denied it considered implementing such a wide-sweeping effort.

The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with President Donald Trump putting in a call to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items.

Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company’s website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a “good call.”

Amazon said it has ruled out a plan to display a tariff surcharge on product listings after its founder Jeff Bezos got an angry call from President Trump and the White House called it a “hostile and political act”.

The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that it weighed showing import charges on its discount shopping site Haul, but said the idea “was never approved and is not going to happen.” Amazon said it had never considered displaying the charges on its flagship shopping site.

The White House said Amazon was engaging in a “hostile and political act” with plans to display how much President Trump’s tariffs will add to a product’s price next to the item’s total price.

Jeff Bezos’ company will reportedly start listing the price change from tariffs.

“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

President Donald Trump’s head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he wants to see the deportation process look like "[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings."

ICE's Acting Director Todd Lyons made the remarks during the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center on April 8, 2025, according to the Arizona Mirror.

His vision would see squads of ICE agents in trucks rounding people up and shipping them to other countries in the same way that Amazon ships packages.

Amazon.com Inc. has canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter, suggesting the company is reducing its exposure to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Monday accused e-commerce giant Amazon of manipulating data on worker injuries and ignoring safety concerns. "Amazon's warehouse workers have raised the alarm for years about unsafe working conditions and a corporate culture that prioritizes speed and profit over worker health and safety," the report states.

Amazon (AMZN+1.45% ) manipulates its workplace injury data and rejected recommendations to improve safety conditions for its workers, according to a Senate investigation into labor rules at the U.S.’s largest online retailer. The 160-report from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee is the result of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ investigation into the company’s “abysmal safety record” that he launched last year. The report says Amazon manipulates workplace injury data to make its warehouses appear safer than they actually are by cherry-picking statistics.

A sweeping congressional investigation into worker safety at Amazon found that the nation’s largest online retailer manipulated data on warehouse worker injuries and disregarded internal research on improving safety.

The report was released late Sunday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension, or HELP, Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).

As I write this, the Washington Post has reportedly lost over 250,000 paid subscribers after choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election. There’s no guarantee that all of those unsubscribes are due to the decision — and the figure has come from an anonymous source — but there’s no doubt that many are fleeing the paper because they feel it betrayed their trust.