President Trump says Walmart should “eat the tariffs”.

Walmart is used to attracting attention to its prices. This weekend it fell in the president – and anger.

As a result, the latest example for a large company that found top -class political setbacks in an even liquid trade environment.

The CEO von Walmart (WMT), Doug McMillon, thanked last week during the company conference of the company President Donald Trump and Finance Minister Scott Bessent for “Progress”, who have been cutting the tariffs since Trump's “Liberation Day” announcement. The markets have recently supported the news of a framework for trade talks with China and a scaling of steep tariffs, which have been mutually imposed on each other.

“We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible,” said McMillon on Thursday, a transcript whose transcript was made available by alphasense. The retailer achieved more than $ 165 billion in the first quarter. But it also left the possibility that the profits could decrease this year depending on the trade policy.

“In view of the size of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we cannot take up pressure in view of the reality of the tight retail margins,” said McMillon.

Trump says about the truth that Walmart should “eat” the tariffs

“Walmart should stop trying to accuse tariffs as the reason for increasing prices throughout the chain,” Trump said in a Saturday message about the social truth. “Walmart earned billions of dollars last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China, as I said, they should” eat the tariffs “and not charge any esteemed customers. I will watch, and their customers will also get their customers !!!”

In the past few weeks, several companies have announced that tariffs could lead them to increase prices, pay customers to maintain their markets. The Trump administration has not all recorded them publicly, but called out some large retailers.

As reports, who pointed out that Amazon.com (amzn) could describe the effects of tariffs on the prices on his website in detail, members of the Trump administration named it as “hostile and political” law. (The company later said the idea was limited to a comparatively small part of its business and was never put into force.)

“We have always worked to keep our prices as low as possible, and we won't stop” Investopedia In a Sunday -e -e -Mail. “We will keep prices as low as possible as long as we can have the reality of small retail margins.”