Actually has Amazon-Thef Jeff Bezos (61) Everything done to with US President Donald Trump good weather. He donated one million dollars for the inauguration and also spent another $ 40 million for a Melania Trump documentary, most of which flowed directly in Melania’s cash register. And sat with his partner Lauren Sanchez (55) at the celebrations in the first ranks. He also restricted after Trump’s taking office after he had already prevented Trump’s “Washington Post” Opinion page a.
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It seemed as if Bezos had done everything right to prosperate under the new administration. In his most recent interview with the “Atlantic”, Trump Bezos praised the highest tones. Bezos is “great”, “100 percent”, Trump praised the 61-year-old.
But on Tuesday there was – as a warning to Bezos, and thus on behalf of many other companies – but then again. The reason was a newspaper article that is said to have made plans to show the customs costs on its products to customers.
The disclosure of Trump’s customs policy would be “an enemy and political act of Amazon,” said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday. With her statements, she reacted to a corresponding report by the “Punchbowl News” internet platform.
Leavitt also accused Amazon of “signed a partnership with a Chinese propaganda unit”. She kept an article from the Reuters news agency from the end of 2021 with a picture of CEO Bezos. According to Reuters, Amazon had entered into a partnership with the Chinese authorities. This should create an internet portal for books by Chinese government members, primarily for President XI Jinping.
After the significant warning and according to press reports, a personal call for Trump at Bezos hurried to Demotier. There would be no plans to identify the additional costs by tariffs on the main page of the company, the company said. And this has not yet been done on any of the company’s pages. Only on the “Amazon Haul” page that sells cheapest products was this considered for some products. This “will not happen,” the company clarified.
Trump himself was also conciliatory in front of the press. Bezos was “very nice,” emphasized Trump. He solved “the problem” very quickly. “He did the right thing.”
In fact, Amazon obviously suffers massively from the new customs regime. On Tuesday, the logistician UPS justified the deletion of 20,000 positions at the group with a massive Burglary of the Amazon business. According to UPS, the Amazon programs decreased by 16 percent in the first quarter. A similar decline should be expected in the second quarter.
In addition, as well as other tech giants, Amazon is also threatened with the competitive authority FTC under the new government.
Warning to VW and Co.
Corporations worldwide are likely to be a clear and probably also deliberate warning worldwide. Numerous corporations, including VW, had considered to make their customers transparent to their customers. A procedure that you should now think about in the face of Trump’s reaction.