Trump Tariffs Hit Island Only Inhabited by Penguins

Thursday, April 03, 2025

The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

Posted by retort at 08:15 AM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia.
Very normal administration we have here.
-- Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Comments

Those penguins needed to get knocked down a peg.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-03 08:28 AM

This is genuinely insane behavior. Not Trump's first insane behavior by any long shot. But it is one of the clearest and most inarguable examples.

Things will fall apart but one wonders whether Trump has the capacity to notice and uunderstand? The man lives in his head, and his head is a very nasty place.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-03 08:35 AM

Stupid

#3 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-04-03 09:38 AM

Trump Tariffs Hit Island Only Inhabited by Penguins

Scatter boys! The jig is up!

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-03 10:12 AM

Penguins are beautiful and intelligent creatures. No wonder MAGA wishes them ill will.

#5 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-04-03 11:13 AM

They hit this island.

But NOT Russia or North Korea.

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-03 11:42 AM

Penguin Attack - GWAR (1997)

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-03 11:59 AM

Don the Con just wanted to add as many countries as possible. He and whoever looked up a world almanac didn't even know half of the countries on the list existed. More show than good policy.

#8 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-04-03 12:42 PM

Remember, Trump says these islands have tariffs on us.

I want to know HOW.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-03 03:41 PM

great news

those little bastards walking around in their tuxedos all the

time like they're something special.

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-03 05:41 PM

"We now live in the Trump era, where the president's terrible ideas are made real by a team of enablers and toadies. Democracy may die in darkness, but under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness."

Bret Stephens, New York Times.

#11 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-04-03 09:31 PM

Those filthy penguins are getting what they deserve!

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-04 01:20 AM

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