Karoline Leavitt may be the most frightening performer in the Washington freak show.  She was riding shotgun in a press conference for Mr Bessent, who looked and sounded like a totem pole.  He was asked about Amazon’s listing the price of tariffs on delivered goods.  She intervened to say that this action of Amazon was ‘hostile and political.’

So, that’s what you get for telling the truth.  But why would the President not want the truth of his gospel to be spread like wild fire?  He says tariffs are money for jam – they may make income tax unnecessary.

As usual, the answer was nonsense.  Why did not Amazon give Biden the same treatment?  This assumes the treatment is harmful, and it also trashes the nation. 

If the CEO of BHP said the company had been trashed over four years by its worst CEO ever, he would be sacked and sued.

But not in the bastion of capitalism.