{"id":17919,"date":"2025-02-28T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/theyve-lost-my-trust-consumers-shun-companies-as-bosses-kowtow-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:38:45","slug":"theyve-lost-my-trust-consumers-shun-companies-as-bosses-kowtow-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/theyve-lost-my-trust-consumers-shun-companies-as-bosses-kowtow-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019ve lost my trust\u2019: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters \u2013 bottom lines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1ja835wd\">Download our free app to get trusted reporting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. The catalyst was Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. Many more Americans are planning to make similar decisions this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bedson made her move after seeing photos of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, sitting with other tech moguls and billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai, just rows behind Trump at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-inauguration-tech-executives\">his inauguration.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/feb\/28\/trump-consumer-protests-companies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3dd942d0c6435de5ae44e200e69ea5ea55c46a9e\/0_378_6000_3599\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bd1cdb40112fc632b3da6ef49f1f1414\" title=\"\u2018They\u2019ve lost my trust\u2019: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump\" \/>As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters \u2013 bottom lines<br \/>\nDon\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.<br \/>\nIn late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. The catalyst was Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. Many more Americans are planning to make similar decisions this Friday.<br \/>\nBedson made her move after seeing photos of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, sitting with other tech moguls and billionaires, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai, just rows behind Trump at his inauguration. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters \u2013 bottom lines Don\u2019t let a billionaire\u2019s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/theyve-lost-my-trust-consumers-shun-companies-as-bosses-kowtow-to-trump\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018They\u2019ve lost my trust\u2019: consumers shun companies as bosses kowtow to Trump<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}