Summary
The U.S. imposed a 29% tariff on Norfolk Island, nearly triple the 10% rate applied to the rest of Australia, with no explanation from the White House.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed confusion, noting Norfolk Island’s limited economic activity. The territory has a population of about 2,000 and minimal exports.
Other remote territories like Christmas Island and Heard and McDonald Islands also received tariffs, though the latter are uninhabited.
Easy.
Someone from that island hurt Trump’s feefees 3 decades ago.
My personal guess (just a guess, since none of this makes any logical sense) is that he’s going to use the very high tariffs on those islands to help him with some creative accounting in showing overall wins when all of this is over - increasing the pittance that these islands are likely paying us already, let’s call it turning $100 into $150 - no meaningful benefit to the US, but looks amazing by the percentages.
“See, I tariff’d the whole world for a 5.5 gajillion percent increase in US revenue! I’m a big winner!”
I’m sorry they put tarrifs on uninhabited islands lol
I’m pretty sure that the trump regime spun two gameshow wheels: one to pick a country and another to pick a tariff percentage.
They’re just setting the tarriff to half the ‘trade deficit’ percentage.
Where the actual trade amount is trivial, this leads to ludicrous results.
Elon for loop mastery
Trump’s fucking head is uninhabited yet here he is costing us a lot, so I guess that’s the same as Heard Island tarrifs, right?
Other remote territories like Christmas Island and Heard and McDonald Islands also received tariffs, though the latter are uninhabited.
What a weave by a certified stable genius.
He probably saw McDonald’s island is where McDonald’s is huge
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
The phrase carries the meaning of someone identified as stupid through their actions rather than their appearance.
The phrase means that stupid people will do silly things, and you can single them out by looking at their methodology and results with handling tasks.
Christmas Island is well known for its asylum camps… and nothing else? Stupid is really the only word.
From wikipedia:
Christmas Island’s geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. … As of the 2021 Australian census, the population of Christmas Island is 1,692.
And there’s a town there called “The Settlement”?
Good pick /s
I assume he was once insulted by Eldon Foote or one of his kids.
Make them broke and offer to buy the land from under them
They threw a dart at a globe and that’s where it landed.
