https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs-instead-raising-prices-2025-05-17/ WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Walmart <WMT.N> should "eat the tariffs" instead of blaming duties imposed by his administration on imported goods for the retailer's increased prices.
His comments were in response to the world's largest retailer saying this week it would have to start raising prices later this month due to high tariffs.
"Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected," Trump said in a social media post.
"Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, 'EAT THE TARIFFS,' and not charge valued customers ANYTHING."
A representative of Walmart could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said on Thursday the retailer could not absorb all the tariff costs because of narrow retail margins. Even so, he said, the company was committed to ensuring that tariff-related costs on general merchandise - which primarily comes from China - would not drive food prices higher.
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Shills will see this and somehow keep claiming Trump isn't retarded
sell to us or don't sell at all
Amazon Walmart and Target will make the suppliers eat most of the tariff costs
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>>1406769 That doesn't make any sense
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>>1406768 Shills are going to ignore it and pretend it isn't happening, and when that doesn't work anymore they will blame it on Biden.
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>>1406769 Walmart is its own supplier for a ton of shit.
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>>1406772 I think anon's claiming that Walmart and Target will use their market share to force the suppliers who want to sell to them to lower their prices. Which is possible, but about as likely as a twink surviving in Gaza.
What's really funny about this is all those people who scream how corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes (without raising prices on the consumers) are suddenly claiming that Trump telling corporations to not raise their prices just because they have to pay taxes is somehow retarded.
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>>1406790 >What's really funny about this is all those people who scream how raising taxes on corporations will just make them pass the cost to the consumer, but magically expect they'll respect Trump in not passing along the retarded tax THIS time fixed that for you
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>>1406790 I guess it's supposed to be walmart's fault for not immediately building 50 manufacturing plants in America.
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>>1406799 I was told China would be paying the tariffs.
So why does manufacturing not returning to the US matter, and why is Walmart expected to cover the costs China is paying?
Is Trump actually an Idiot? Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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>>1406803 >Is Trump an idiot? Trump has no idea what's happening outside of Mar-a-lago and his businesses, and even if he did, he would still lie about it. He doesn't care. The US could get nuked and he would still call it a win.
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>>1406766 >Winning and winning and winning and there's going to be so much winning >Oh fuck you, why can't you just own nothing and be happy? Anonymous
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>>1406804 >Trump has no idea what's happening outside of Mar-a-lago and his businesses, and even if he did, he would still lie about it. He doesn't care >let them eat cake Trump should know what happened to the last person who said that
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>>1406790 >I think anon's claiming that Walmart and Target will use their market share to force the suppliers who want to sell to them to lower their prices. Which is possible, but about as likely as a twink surviving in Gaza Walmart, Target, and Amazon use large scale buying to pressure suppliers to absorb costs...at least some of them.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2025/walmart-and-target-wrangling-with-suppliers-following-tariffs/ Anonymous
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>>1406821 Trying to make anyone absorb costs is never going to work. All these companies are this big because they'd never accept any kind of reduced profit growth, let alone reduced profit.
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>>1406821 Elol's under so much pressure from Bezos already
>>1406757 Muskrat's absorbing so much Ketamine, wouldn't surprise me if he's tried
ordering it from Amazon Anonymous
>>1406805 corpo cocksucker.
Trump's being rediculous since its a for-profit company but he has a point, Walmart artifically raised its prices higher then what the inflation coming out of Covid caused
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>>1406828 >Walmart artifically raised its prices higher then what the inflation coming out of Covid caused Most big places did, unfortunately he can't really do anything about that short of nationalizing them.
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>>1406830 and now he can stick it up to them for not paying his 1million dollar campaign contribution fee.
trump's gonna be gone in 4 years if he can bankrupt walmart in the meantime that'll be a win.
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ohhhh nooooo who could have seen that coming, not like certain people inside and outside of the US said that since the first second he opend his mouth
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>>1406931 >and do you guys already have an offical announcement for the hunger games? or purge? Well they apparently have a reality game show where immigrants compete to immigrate in the works, does that count?
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>>1406833 >if he can bankrupt walmart in the meantime that'll be a win. >>1406933 That hasn't been finalized yet
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>>1406945 have you checked what his EO did to healthcare stocks.
15-25% down 2 days after his EO capping drug prices. the market is reacting hard.
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>>1406950 The stock market made back everything it lost
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>>1406957 UNH(united healthcare) is down 30% from a week ago.
HALO is down 21%
xene is down 10%
if you go back a month ago its way worst
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>>1406963 They will go back up when they realize Trump's EO was toothless and unconstitutional without congressional backup
