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NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance. The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.

wired.comTrump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many PenguinsThe 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.

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He's a failed businessman and he doesn't know how to govern because he can't get along with Congress, or not much else for that matter, so he's running the gov't like a Trump Organization where only he makes the executive decisions. We know what happens to his businesses.

I was pretty surprised to see $1.5 million in imports according to the World Bank — those penguins are up to something (or maybe a scientific expedition brought back equipment and had to pay duty?) bsky.app/profile/burr...

Burrito Justice@burritojustice.bsky.social

wondering if they pulled data from the World Bank where dependencies with their own ISO code are all broken out? wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfi... and apparently there *are* some imports from Heard Island into the US? weird list, machinery? wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfi...

The only thing I can figure out, since the islands are owned by Australia, that maybe they think someone will do a weird goods laundering scheme to get around tariffs? Which makes no sense but this admin is bonkers.

Arctic islands aren't getting enough of this attention. Does no-one think of the puffins too

Peter Corkeron@petercorkeron.bsky.social

As Jan Mayen is now subject to 10% #tariffs from the USA, here's some images from the island, from when we popped in there in 2002. "Popped in" means helicoptered off an icebreaker for a few hours. The idea that Jan Mayen imposes #tariffs on the US - just wow.

Yes, the penguins are getting ALL the attention. Puffins are the perfect Protestants - mate for life, have one offspring at a time. Good parents getting the babies to fly. What good do tariffs do for those exemplars of propriety?

🐧🤬 Watch out for those powerful wings...they don't create flight, but they create strength to beat the crap out of the dumbass who imposed tariffs on their island, which does not export anything!!

Trump said "Penguins have done horrible things to our economy. Horrible, horrible things. I mean, they're great, and I'd do the same, but we're not going to let them get away with it anymore. What the penguins do to us we do to them from now on."

🇨🇦 I have said a person only knows 10% of what is going on in another’s life or in a job or situation they are not involved in. Tariffs. Maybe 🇨🇦 PM’s & 🇲🇽 Prez knew what they were doing. 🇺🇸 is unstable and we came out of today better than many could have imagined! 🇨🇦 Vote Liberal! 🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong

Yes, because it was probably cobbled together by ‘Big Balls’ at DOGE using Grok.

James Alexander@jmsalxdr.bsky.social

Trump’s ‘tariff chart’ just demonstrates how completely guilty he was of those 34 felony counts for falsified business records — it’s meaningless nonsense.

Dem Actions: 1) Submit bill with Trump's forgotten popular tax cuts. 2) Fund infrastructure, education, science, environment 3) Tax all income with FICA regardless of source or amount 4) tax wealth over $100M at 1%, over $1B at 2%, $10B at 3%, $100B at 4%, $1T at 5%...