TSF said he's going to ensure Walmart doesn't raise their prices in response to his tariffs.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[alwaysinasnit]

1. ...

[jls4561]

2. Until I hear he's going to sell one of his tacky

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whorehouses resorts to subsidize Walmart shoppers, I won’t believe it.

[marybourg]

3. I guess he's never had to deal with

shareholders.

[newdeal2]

4. They would be smart to start using their lobbying money against Republicans

They’re bad for business.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. He only cares because it reflects badly on HIM

He doesn't give a shit about the 99.9%.

[bif]

6. I'd be willing to bet he's never actually been in a Walmart

[Walleye]

9. Yes, he prefers to do his raping in higher class dressing room

[orangecrush]

21. This

[hlthe2b]

7. Not that i'm a Walmart fan, mind you, but since when does he get to order businesses to go bankrupt?

(or at least lose major money as a result of his damned idiocy?)

[Aristus]

45. Well, he's done that many times in the past.

He’s just never had to order it to happen.

[BootinUp]

8. I'd like to know what kind of leverage he thinks he has. Nt

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. He's going to tell his voters to buy their groceries at Whole Foods

[Cha]

36. My first thought is

Mump is lying to his cult and they’ll believe him over their Lying eyes 👀.

[BootinUp]

39. The cult is not going to swallow tariff tales forever. nt

[Cha]

42. TY, I hope Not. I read Bezos had

Amazon Take Off the Tariff Increase Prices Column On his Website

[MadameButterfly]

52. under pressure from Trump

I wonder how Bezos is liking his deal with the devil

[Cha]

58. Of course. I was wondering how Bezos was

going to like the whole Tariff Scam right away.. and now it's materializing.

Like someone said today.. they couldn't wait for the Maga Bucks in the Cult to get pissed off. Paraphrasing.

[ProfessorGAC]

60. An Empty Promise By Bezos

The moment profits drop & analysts start asking question on a 10Q call, Amazon will do what's in their best interest.
Bozos just mollified the man-baby but has no intention of holding to that "deal".

[Cha]

64. So Trouble in "Paradise"!

Couldn't happen to a more Deserving bunch a Treasonous Fascists

[Bluetus]

63. I'm not sure that is entirely true.

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Amazon explained they have a separate site for wholesale transactions, and that is the site that displayed tariff information briefly.

I don't believe the main retail site ever showed the tariffs. It should.

[Cha]

65. Thanks for the corection!

[B.See]

48. On the contrary, his LEMMINGS will

eat up the lies and ask for more.

The price of eggs was put on President Biden's shoulders, yet this cretin starts punitive tariff wars but shouldn't be held responsible.

Typical flim-flamery for the readily BAMBOOZLED.

[travelingthrulife]

67. Agreed. They will soon become very angry at the Democrats for doing this to them.

[Walleye]

10. Walmart operates on a very small profit margin. I'm sure. Maybe Elon will make up the difference. He's got enough money.

[EX500rider]

16. Walmart's net profit margin for the quarter ending January 31, 2025, was 2.85%.

[Walleye]

23. Thank you for that information That's a lot smaller than the tariffs

[FormerOstrich]

11. Infuriating

He has no concept of the most fundamental of things.....

Okay, so he thinks Walmart can absorb the costs. However, what about smaller companies (the very few that Walmart hasn't already done in)? Assuming Walmart does as they are told and bend over it will be a double hit to the mom & pop. They won't be able to compete.

Arggg

[Lovie777]

13. The rate things are going..........

[GoCubsGo]

14. And, he's going to do this how???

[flvegan]

17. Threaten to not buy his suits there anymore. n/t

[Walleye]

24. 😆

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. You're killing me.

[Justice matters.]

44. Threaten to send his domestic terrorists (he pardonned) in their stores?

To break things and throw their feces around?

Don Convicton...

[MadameButterfly]

55. subsidize the sale of brownshirts

[Prairie Gates]

15. The federal government telling Walmart that they need to take a haircut

You mean, all along the whole thing about "They have to pass it on to the consumer" has been bullshit, and the government can dictate prices for products across the board?

Wow! Is it like "Only Nixon could go to China," and "Only Trump could establish federal price controls?"



Welcome to the command economy!

[Walleye]

25. Oh, but didn't they throw a fit about trying to lower the price of prescription drugs?

Communist price control, they called it

[Klarkashton]

18. This level of desperation is embarrassing.

He can never admit how badly he fucks things up.

[orangecrush]

19. ...

This should be good

[spanone]

20. He's delusional. Why should a private enterprise pay for his lies?

Is Walmart going to pay those billions of dollars that the tariffs are supposedly bringing in?

[Jim__]

22. Freedom! When the government sets your prices.

[ImNotGod]

26. too late, they raised food prices by 22 percent right after tariffs were announced. nt

[Srkdqltr]

27. Why just Walmart? I wonder if he thinks its the only store? What about all the rest who will up their prices?

Ya, I know, it's Trump we are talking about.

[hildegaard28]

28. They shouldn't raise

Prices. They should just tack on a separate tax for every item effected by tariffs. They should call it the Trump Tax. It can go under the the regular price of the items, and it should be totaled and placed under the sales tax at the end of the receipt.

[Diamond_Dog]

29. How much longer will it take for his rube MAGA's to wake up to the fact

their Dear Leader is screwing them for his own self aggrandizement? That he doesn’t give a flying fuck about them?

[Justice matters.]

49. Like him, they will never admit they were wrong.

That's what they learned from him (among other deplorable behaviors).

[not fooled]

51. They will take this announcement to mean

that he's fighting for them.

Their mental capacity stops before getting to "but he created this situation."

[Midnight Writer]

31. Now the Republicans want wage and price control? From a single person, the President?

And they the same person to be the head of the Federal Reserve?

And the same person to be the head of all law enforcement?

And the same person to be able to single-handedly overturn all Court decisions, including Supreme Court decisions?

And the same person can claim legal immunity for apparently anything, including violations of our Constitution?

And the same person to head up a mindless political cult, prone to violence?

Something tells me they do not plan to give up power through free and fair elections.

[Shermann]

32. Is it even possible to police that?

Walmart's online marketplace boasts over 200 million unique products. The prices on these products are constantly in motion due to countless other factors. Good luck with that.

[BlueKota]

33. I keep hoping if he ticks off enough rich Republicans

they will realize the tax breaks are not going to be big enough to cover the amount of business and profits he's costing them. Plus there has got to be some members of the financial elite, who have hefty egos of their own, & don't appreciate tsf telling them what to do.

If they stop seeing a substantial return on their contributions maybe they will cut off funds to the congressional pigs campaigns, and the pigs will turn on their master. It's not likely to happen, but it would be great to see.

[Skittles]

34. keep babbling, asshole

maybe, just MAYBE some of your fucking cult will snap out of it and realize YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT

[bluestarone]

35. Only ONE reason for his words

Make his stupid ass MAGA people happy.

[Bread and Circuses]

37. Is he going to have Qatar pay for the tariffs? 🥸

[BurnDoubt]

38. Remember health care? "Who knew it was this hard?"

[Nictuku]

40. Tariffs announced on Friday, Futures will be way up because on Mon or Tue he will reverse again

They (Republicans) just LOVE his market manipulation

[IronLionZion]

41. He's ordering companies around? Sounds like a socialist dictator.

[rurallib]

43. I have been saving popcorn for the right moment

This feels like it.

A pox on both their houses.

Let the games begin!

[Jacson6]

46. Walmart's job is to protect investors.

Not DJT's feelings.

[Emile]

47. What's he gonna do? Raise taxes on Walmart lol.

[aggiesal]

50. I have only 1 thing to say about this ...

[Ocelot II]

53. Gotta love that GOP free market!

[Warpy]

54. Walmart to Fatso

"That's not how things work, Stupid. Fuck off"

[Self Esteem]

56. Isn't this what a lot of liberals wanted Biden to do when he was president?

Force corporations to not use inflation + supply change issues as an excuse to raise prices?

[artemisia1]

57. Is he going to cancel the Law of Supply and Demand while he's at it? /nt

[Arazi]

59. Sounds like price controls

Pretty sure Kamala Harris got shredded for suggesting grocery stores were price gouging and needed to be reined in.

The rightwing were shrieking about her “communism” (sic) during her entire campaign

[Nixie]

61. He's a mob boss.

This is apparently how it works.

[Tribetime]

62. Sure OK..tell Home Depot and everyone else to turn the clock back

A few weeks since they raised prices already

[DemocratSinceBirth]

66. I'm sure all businesses are raising their prices.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

68. Maddow Blog-By trying to bully Walmart, Trump gives away the game on his tariffs agenda

If Trump were right about foreign countries paying tariffs, why is he demanding that Walmart simply “eat the tariffs”? Because he’s wrong about the basics.

By trying to bully Walmart, Trump gives away the game on his tariffs agenda - MSNBC

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— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T13:52:23.601Z

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trying-bully-walmart-trump-gives-away-game-tariffs-agenda-rcna207634

Last week, Walmart became the latest high-profile national retailer to announce that Donald Trump’s trade tariffs were poised to push consumer prices higher. In fact, the price hikes are poised to reach the public very soon: David Rainey, the behemoth’s chief financial officer, told CNBC on Thursday that Walmart would likely start rolling out tariff-related price hikes “towards the tail end of this month, and I certainly expect more in June.”

As The Washington Post reported, the president did not take the news well.

President Donald Trump over the weekend admonished Walmart for warning that his tariffs could force a price increase, urging the world’s biggest retailer to simply absorb the consequences of his trade war. ... The president responded Saturday, posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Walmart should ‘EAT THE TARIFFS’ and ‘not charge valued customers ANYTHING.’

......When it comes to the president’s approach to the issue, he has repeatedly pushed a simple claim: Foreign counties pay the tariffs. That’s never made any sense, and everyone who’s ever taken an Economics 101 course has tried to explain how absurd this belief is, but Trump — whose capacity for confusion about the basics of trade policy is endless — has nevertheless clung to the assertion, telling the public that tariffs on China, for example, lead Beijing to put money in American coffers. That’s long been absurd, but the Republican has long been impervious to the policy details.

Trump’s latest online statement, however, gives away the game: He apparently now realizes, at least on some level, that his tariffs are responsible for pushing Walmart’s costs higher, and the retailer now intends to push its prices higher as a result.

The president wants Walmart to simply “eat the tariffs” — meaning, Trump wants the company to profit less in order to accommodate the tariff-related costs. Time will tell whether Walmart follows the White House’s lead......

But again, the dust-up itself served as a reminder to Trump that it’s American businesses and American consumers that feel the pinch from his tariffs.

It was against this backdrop that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor in late April, calling on companies to do what Amazon was prepared to do. “To the large businesses that sell to consumers, I say: Show your customers how much tariffs are hurting in their pocketbooks,” the New York Democrat said. “People deserve to know the impact tariffs have on their finances. ... And it’s also small businesses: They don’t want to get blamed for hiking prices when Donald Trump’s tariffs have put them in a terrible position — in a position that says, raise your prices of close your doors. They hate doing either.”

A week later, congressional Democrats introduced legislation to codify this idea into law, unveiling a bill that would require retailers to display costs that reflect Trump-imposed increases. Although the legislation will never be seriously considered in a Republican-led Congress, the effort itself should be part of an educational campaign for the president, which seems to be working, slowly but surely.