Trump’s overreaction to an unconfirmed story about Amazon including the cost of tariffs on its price labels businesses must now navigate a landscape where loyalty to the President matters more than logic, says Eliot Wilson

It started with Punchbowl News. On Tuesday last week, as Donald Trump was marking 100 days in office, the Capitol Hill-focused news site, quoting an anonymous source, reported that Amazon intended to label its goods to show how much of the total price was due to the new tariff regime.

The White House’s reaction was swift and savage. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, one of the most zealously loyal and vengeful members of Trump’s inner circle, suggested such a move would only vindicate tariffs and serve to provide “another reason why Americans should buy........

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