⚾️ Plus: Best in baseball | Tuesday, April 29, 2025
| | | | | | | PRESENTED BY INSTAGRAM | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Apr 29, 2025 | | Happy Tuesday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Alex Fitzpatrick, is 669 words, a 2.5-min. read. Thanks to Carolyn DiPaolo for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Trump's phone fury | | | | White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, joined by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, holds a news article with a photo of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos today to complain about a report that the e-commerce giant planned to highlight tariff costs by showing customers the tariff increase next to the total price. - Amazon issued a statement saying no such plan had been considered for its main shopping website.
☎️ The intrigue: A White House official told CNN that Trump was "pissed" when he called Bezos, who's now Amazon's executive chair. - "Jeff Bezos was very nice — he was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly," Trump told reporters as he left the White House this afternoon for an evening event in Macomb County, Michigan, to mark Day 100 of his term.
- "And he did the right thing ... a good guy," Trump added.
📦 Amazon denied the Punchbowl report, which came from an anonymous source, shortly after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the purported move as a "hostile and political act." - That cemented the Amazon back-and-forth as Washington's big story of the day, Axios' Avery Lotz, Ben Berkowitz and Alex Fitzpatrick write.
Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson, said: "The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen." - Haul is a discount marketplace that's essentially Amazon's response to discount and fast fashion giants Temu and Shein.
💸 The big picture: Reader interest in the story exploded this morning, further evidence that inflation and price hikes are top of mind for many Americans in uncertain economic times. - Trump's tariffs are likely to increase prices. But it's not clear when increases will hit, or how big they'll be.
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. 💉 Scientists vs. vaccine misinfo | | | | Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios A group of public health experts and scientists is mobilizing to counter vaccine misinformation from federal agencies, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim reports. - The Vaccine Integrity Project is led by former FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg and former National Academy of Medicine president Harvey Fineberg, and will operate as part of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).
💵 It's supported by an unrestricted gift from Alumbra, a foundation established by Christy Walton, widow of Walmart heir John Walton. - "This project acknowledges the unfortunate reality that the system that we've relied on to make vaccine recommendations and to review safety and effectiveness data faces threats," CIDRAP director and epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon called the project "a self-appointed echo chamber masquerading as oversight": "America doesn't need another unaccountable group of former officials circling the wagons to protect outdated narratives." | | | | | | | | A MESSAGE FROM INSTAGRAM | | App store parental approval can help keep teens safe online | | |  | | | | Instagram supports federal legislation requiring app store parental approval and age verification for teens under 16. Here's why: Today, teens can download any app — even ones parents don't want them to. Federal legislation putting parents in charge could help keep teens safe. Learn more. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | | | President Trump speaks to the press outside the White House before leaving for a 100th Day in Office rally in Michigan. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images - 🚗 President Trump is expected to deliver relief on some auto industry tariffs when he visits Michigan today to celebrate 100 days in office. Go deeper.
- 👎 U.S. consumer confidence fell for the fifth straight month, and expectations for the future fell to a 13-year low. Go deeper.
- 🔌 Power has returned for millions hit by massive blackouts across Spain and Portugal, but their cause remains unknown. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. ⚾️ One for the road: Ya gotta believe | | | | The Mets faithful cheer as Pete Alonso hits a two-run homer on April 4. Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images The Mets were supposed to be good this year, but this good? - One month into the season, the Amazins' hold the best record in baseball, becoming the first team to reach 20 wins with last night's 19-5 shellacking of the Washington Nationals, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick writes.
💰 Especially stunning is that the Mets are rolling with only three homers from Juan Soto, a former Yankee whose record $765 million contract came on the heels of a 41-dinger season. 🧢 Reality check: One guy doesn't make a team, and the rest of the Mets are more than making up for Soto's relatively slow start. - 📆 And despite the playoff energy in Flushing, it's only April.
- Red-hot guys like Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor will undoubtedly cool eventually — and then it'll be Soto's turn to step up.
👑 The bottom line: This year in Queens. | | | | | | | | A MESSAGE FROM INSTAGRAM | | Congress can help keep teens safe with app store parental approval | | |  | | | | Federal legislation requiring app store parental approval and age verification for teens under 16 would put parents in charge of teen app downloads – and help them keep teens safe. Why it's important: 3 of 4 parents agree that teens under 16 shouldn't be able to download apps without their approval. Learn more. | | | | 📬 Please invite your friends to join PM. |  | Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it. | | | |
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