« Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers, » he tweeted.
Shares in Amazon.com fell by 0.3 percent Wednesday morning after President Trump tweeted that the retailer is « doing great damage » to businesses and causing widespread job losses, according to Reuters .
« Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities, and states throughout the U. S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost! » Trump tweeted.
Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U. S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16,2017
At around 10 a.m. Wednesday, the shares fell to $973.78, though they began to recover after that.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, which has been critical of Trump. In an op-ed late Tuesday, the paper condemned Trump’s remarks about the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., saying he had « all but declared » his support for racists.
Trump has in the past linked the Post to Amazon, calling it the « Amazon Washington Post » and accusing it for being a » lobbyist weapon » against politicians.
The Post is one of the many news outlets frequently targeted by Trump as « fake news » in his offensive against many mainstream news publications.
