Bezos' Billion-Dollar Bellyflop: Trump’s TACO Tariffs Are KILLING E-Commerce—And the U.S. Economy
Amazon Prime Day Revenue Down 41% due to Tariff Panic & A Dying US Economy - Analysts point to impending recession
July 10, 2025
Every time Trump whinges about America having the “hottest” economy in the world, he’s lying.
America’s economy is on the verge of a significant recession. US tourism has lost $60 billion in the first six months of Trump’s term, and Amazon/other e-commerce giants are getting destroyed, marking the first time in Human history that e-commerce has seen such a significant decline.
Remember when Amazon Prime Day was a capitalist wet dream? A two-day, dopamine-fueled spending orgy? Well, guess what—it just crashed harder than Trump at a NATO summit. Prime Day 2025 nosedived 41% year over year, and the reason isn’t just deal fatigue. It’s the flaming diarrhea sundae known as Trump’s “TACO Tariffs”—his bloated, idiotic trade war now poisoning everything from confidence to commerce.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just an Amazon thing. It’s a full-blown e-commerce implosion. Retail analysts are calling it the worst online sales drop in over a decade, with everything from office chairs to lipstick collecting digital dust while America’s former retail engine stalls out.
Why?
Because consumers aren’t stupid. They know they’re the ones paying the tariffs, not China, not Brazil, not some imaginary villain from a Hannity fever dream. And it’s killing the vibe. Tariffs = higher prices. Higher prices = consumer retreat. Consumer retreat = economic faceplant. Add Trump's 2025 tariff blitz (slapping 25–50% taxes on everything that isn’t nailed down), and you've got a perfect shitstorm of economic sabotage.
🔻 Prime Day 2025: Less “Lightning Deal,” More Dumpster Fire
Amazon extended Prime Day to four days this year, hoping to goose sales by stretching out discounts. What they got instead was a cautionary tale. According to retail tracker Momentum Commerce, sales on Day 1 cratered 41% compared to last year.
Amazon, of course, called the number “inaccurate.” But third-party sellers and economists say otherwise—and they’re not whispering. Many sellers pulled out entirely, refusing to discount tariff-bloated inventory they can’t afford to lose money on. Some who stayed in the game cut ad spend, stopped promotions, or sold at break-even just to dump stock before the next wave of import duties.
This isn't just anecdotal. Adobe Analytics confirmed a weak start across major retailers, and even the ones that did okay had to offer deeper-than-ever discounts and push buy-now-pay-later gimmicks to move product. That’s not growth. That’s desperation.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is somewhere on a yacht watching his golden goose lay a steaming pile of tariff-induced turds.
Kinda makes you feel sorry for the Amazon Founder after spending 100 million on his recent wedding, renting the city of Venice, 100 private jets. Not really…
📦 Tariffs Are a Tax on YOU, Not “Them”
Let’s destroy the dumbest lie Trump keeps repeating: “Other countries pay the tariffs.”
Bullshit.
Importers pay the tariffs at the border. Then they pass that cost to U.S. consumers. Full stop.
So, when you see that $999 TV now selling for $1,229? That’s you paying Trump’s “America First” stupidity surcharge. According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, not a single penny of Trump’s tariffs are paid by foreign exporters or governments. It’s all on American businesses. It’s all on you.
This isn’t policy—it’s economic self-immolation dressed in a red hat.
😬 Consumer Confidence? Gone.
You’d think a strong job market and cooling inflation would keep consumers optimistic. Nope. Trump’s erratic tariffs have killed that buzz. Consumer confidence took a nosedive in June, especially among Republicans, who finally figured out that tariffs aren’t just a headline—they’re a wallet punch.
The latest US Consumer Confidence Index, released by The Conference Board, fell to 93.0 in June, down from 98.4 in May. This represents a decrease of 5.4 points and reverses a portion of the gains seen in May.
The index is comprised of two main components: The Present Situation Index, which assesses current business and labor market conditions, and The Expectations Index, which gauges short-term outlooks for income, business, and labor market conditions. Both components saw declines in June, with the Expectations Index falling below the 80 threshold, which typically signals an impending recession.
The result?
37% of Americans are now intentionally avoiding purchases due to Trump’s tariffs.
34% delayed spending entirely waiting for this nightmare to end.
28% rushed to buy early to avoid getting crushed by price hikes later.
This whiplash is gutting online commerce. It’s also warping retail behavior: surges in panic-buying, followed by silence. Economists call it a demand vacuum. I call it what it is: a recession grenade, cooked up in Mar-a-Lago’s crayon room.
🔥 The Dominoes Are Falling
Retail categories across the board are bleeding:
🪑 Furniture & Home Goods: Down 10%
🎮 Electronics: Down 10%
🎯 Sporting Goods: Down 12%
🖨️ Office Supplies: Down 14%
Even Jeff Bezos can’t hide from it—and you know that man has a spaceship. And if Amazon’s cratering wasn’t warning enough, just ask Walmart and Best Buy how they feel about “Deals Week” turning into “Please God Just Buy Something Month.”
This isn’t a market correction. This is intentional sabotage from a guy who thinks “tariff” is a French pastry and “trade war” means yelling at the G7 until your diaper leaks.
Welcome to the Era of “Buy Nothing Day” — Every Day
So what do we get from these tariffs?
Higher prices. Slower growth. Unstable markets. Lack of product. Consumers holding their breath, businesses tightening belts, and Bezos crying into his golden drone fleet.
All thanks to Trump’s ego, his grudge against foreign flags, and his wet-brained belief that punishing Americans will somehow “teach China a lesson.” Spoiler: it didn’t.
Final Thought: Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Policy. They’re Punishment.
For decades, American presidents tried to build confidence, grow the middle class, and stabilize trade. Trump? He’s building a moat around your wallet and handing the tax bill to you. Amazon’s Prime Day disaster isn’t a glitch—it’s the future under MAGA economics.
The next time Trump rants about bringing jobs home, ask yourself: if tariffs are working so well, why are Americans spending less, earning less, and getting crushed by online prices?
The truth is simple: Trump's taco tariffs aren’t “America First.” They’re a tax on the American people. Always have been. Always will be.
Say it with me: “TRUMP TARIFF RECESSSION.”
When will ppl accept that Krasnov is working to tear the country apart? Muskovite, too. JD is complicit. Pootin is betting on USA breakup just like USSR.
Hight taxes or Tariffs is how to weaken the American citizens, it is deplorable, but what doe Trump care he doesn't, you voted him in, and you we got played by him, He is ruining our image and the core values we held dearly.
A failing President! ''Need to Know''
So now, we find ourselves with an authoritarian president, a supine (failing to act as a result of moral weakness)
Congress, a Supreme Court of co-conspirators in the plot to rest power away from the American people and invest it in a despot, a would-be monarch who surrounds himself with the trappings of an Atlantic City version of Louis XIV. In our New Jersey neighborhood we described the style of those who embraced cheeseball grandeur as “Louis the Last” and it sums up the work Trump is doing to make the Oval Office look more like a bordello every day. That said, the bordello metaphor works as Trump is pimping out American virtue, selling that which we once held precious to the highest bidder.
Still, while the president and the GOP and the right wing on the Supreme Court are certain to do everything in their power to try keep Democrats from winning the elections in 2026 and 2028, the reality is that it is unlikely they will be able to do enough. It’s not impossible that they will succeed and Lord knows we need to be vigilant in that respect. But it seems likely that Democrats will have one more chance to reclaim power.
We are entering a time when Democrats will need to truly be new and also, in our view, truly be Democrats, fight for our values because they are what the country needs right now rather than more compromises, the MAGA-lite formulations of a new generation of political savants who say that in order to save the country from Trump we have to be willing to accept Trumpian ideas like immigration brutality or rejection of decent social programs as “communism” or “socialism.” It’s time for real change. Time for new new' Democrats. It’s time!