Trump Says He'll Call Ceos Like Jeff Bezos If He Has Disagreement, Calls Him 'very Nice Guy'

President Donald Trump defended his tariff argumentation successful an question and reply pinch NBC News connected Sunday, saying that he would scope retired to CEOs for illustration Jeff Bezos if he has disagreements complete their consequence to tariffs aliases different issues. 

"Meet nan Press" big Kristen Welker asked Trump astir a telephone that he had pinch Bezos "in consequence to a study that Amazon was going to show tariff costs adjacent to merchandise prices." 

"Are you going to punish CEOs who summation their prices because of tariffs?" Welker asked, later pushing Trump to reply if he would prosecute akin strategies pinch different business leaders. 

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President Donald Trump defended his tariff argumentation successful an question and reply pinch NBC News connected Sunday. (NBC News)

"What did you opportunity to Jeff Bezos?" Welker asked Trump.

"He’s conscionable a very bully guy," Trump said of nan billionaire laminitis of Amazon. "We person a relationship. I asked him astir it. He said, ‘Well, I don’t want to do that,’ and he took it disconnected immediately."       

"So he changed course. And will you return that aforesaid maneuver pinch different CEOs?" Welker followed up.

"Sure," Trump responded. "I’ll ever telephone group if I disagree pinch them."

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Trump said that he would not hesitate to telephone a business leader for illustration Bezos if he has a superior disagreement.  (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

When further pressed by Welker connected calling CEOs directly, Trump said he would not hesitate to telephone a business leader if he has a disagreement. 

"If I deliberation that somebody’s doing thing that’s incorrect, wrong, aliases possibly hurtful to nan country, I’ll call," Trump said. "Wouldn’t you want maine to call? [Joe] Biden wouldn’t telephone because he didn’t cognize what was happening, but I do." 

Amazon past week denied a study that nan e-commerce elephantine would soon show really overmuch nan tariffs will adhd to nan costs of each point for waste connected its tract aft nan White House called nan imaginable move a "hostile and governmental act."

"The squad that runs our ultra debased costs Amazon Haul shop considered nan thought of listing import charges connected definite products," an Amazon spokesperson told Fox Business past week. "This was ne'er approved and is not going to happen."

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President Donald Trump said he had a bully narration pinch Jeff Bezos. (Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times))

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Trump continued to take sides his tariff argumentation successful nan interview, saying that he views tariffs not arsenic a "tax" but arsenic an "incentive" to promote "people to travel into nan United States and build plants, factories, offices, a batch of things." 

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"But what group don’t understand is, and this is simply a lot, nan state eats nan tariff," nan president said. "The institution eats nan tariff. And it’s not passed on astatine each [to consumers]."