Donald Trump drew mockery on Wednesday for together with two distant islands close to Antarctica on his checklist of nations (regardless that they don’t seem to be nations) that can now be hit with steep, new tariffs as a part of his so-called Liberation Day.
The president slapped a ten% tariff on all merchandise which might be imported from the mostly barren, volcanic Heard and McDonald Islands.
They’re uninhabited by people, take days to journey to (solely by boat) from Australia and are residence to penguins and seals, although the realm has a fishery.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow poked enjoyable on the information by noting how the islands ― which, per The Guardian, exported solely about $1.4 million value of merchandise to the U.S. in 2022 ― are “solely reachable by boat and it takes two weeks by sea to get there from Australia.”
“They’re completely uninhabited. Each of them,” she continued. “They’re additionally energetic volcanoes so, even should you needed to maneuver there, even the penguins may warning you, proper?”
“I’ll say these volcanoes and the penguins and seals who stay there, they are going to by no means menace the American financial system once more, as they’ve prior to now, by flooding us with their low cost exports of what? Like, recent air, cool breezes, a waft of eau de penguin, I don’t know. What do they ship us?” Maddow snarked.
“Are you bored with all of the profitable, America?” she requested. “Are you able to simply really feel the sensible financial advantages that MAGA management is bringing to us eventually? Isn’t it a reduction?”
In the meantime, on social media, former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) sarcastically wrote: “The Heard Island and McDonald penguins have been making the most of us for too lengthy — it’s about time we stood as much as them!”
Different critics adopted go well with.
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Correction: A earlier model of this text misstated the yr the Heard and McDonald Islands exported about $1.4 million in merchandise to the U.S.; it was in 2022.
