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President Donald Trump On Sunday, he defended his tariff policy in an interview with NBC News, saying he would contact executives like Jeff Bezos if he disagreed with their response to tariffs or other questions.
“Meet the Press” leader Kristen Welker asked Trump about a call he has with Census “in response to a report that Amazon will show tariff costs in addition to the prices of the product.”
“Will you punish executives who increase prices for tariffs?” Welker asked, later pushing Trump to answer if he would continue similar tactics with other business leaders.
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President Donald Trump defended his tariff politics in an interview with NBC News on Sunday. (NBC News)
“What did you say Jeff Bezos?? “Welker Trump asked.
“He’s just a very good guy,” Trump said about the founder of the Amazon billionaire. “We have a relationship. I asked him about it. He said,” Well, I don’t want to do it, “and he immediately took off.”
“So, he changed the course. And will you take the same tactic with other executives?” Welker followed.
“Of course,” Trump replied. “I’ll always call people if I disagree with them.”
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Trump said he would not hesitate to call a business leader like Bezos if he had a serious disagreement. (Photo Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
When Welker further pressed him directly to call the executive directors, Trump said he would not hesitate to call himself a business leader if he disagreed.
“If I think someone is doing something that is incorrect, wrong or maybe in the country, I’ll call,” Trump said. “Wouldn’t you want to call? [Joe] Biden did not call because he didn’t know what was going on, but I. ”
Last week, Amazon denied the report that the giant of the e-commerce would soon show how much the tariffs would add the costs of each item for sale at its place after the White House called a potential move a “enemy and political act”.
“The team leading our Ultra Low Price of Amazon Haul trade has considered the idea of a list of import costs to certain products,” Amazon spokesman said Fox job Last week. “This has never been approved and will not happen.”
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President Donald Trump said he had a good relationship with Jeff Mesos. (Left: (photo of Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), right: (Photo Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for the New York Times)))
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Trump continued to defend his tariff politics in an interview, saying that the tariffs did not consider the “tax”, but as a “stimulus” to encourage “people to enter the United States and build plants, factories, offices, lots of things.”
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“But what people don’t understand is, and this is a lot, the country eats tariff,” the president said. “The company eats tariff. And that did not exceed at all [to consumers]. “
