Summary
Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on goods from Heard Island and McDonald Islands—remote, uninhabited Australian territories near Antarctica—despite their lack of human activity or exports.
The White House listed them among “countries” facing new trade tariffs. Australia’s Prime Minister said, “Nowhere on Earth is safe.”
Other Australian external territories, like Norfolk Island, were hit harder, facing tariffs up to 29%.
Conflicting data show improbable exports from these islands, including $1.4m in “machinery and electrical” goods from Heard and McDonald Islands in 2022.
Has anyone brought up, in a serious, on the record way, that we are not at war, and the president doesn’t actually have tariff powers right now?
He has statutory emergency authority which can be checked by Congress if abused, except, what Congress?
(Also the tariffs are enforced by CBP, an executive agency.)
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The speaker of the house is helping Trump show off his incredible puppeteering skills.
And I’m not talking about ventriloquism, Trump’s up in him to the elbow.
Hopefully he reported this activity to his son, to keep him honest and appropriately guilty
But not Russia…Odd
Those penguins have been ripping us off for many years.
Wait 'til you see their retaliation!
“Mankind was completely unprepared…” - 5 years from now, probably
chuckles darkly and we thought the Emu Wars were bad.
🇺🇸💥🐧💪🏼
who are the ones who always have to protect them every time they almost go extinct? Can’t they contribute to their own defense effort?
It’s almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit
he probably got mad because they put pickles on his big mac.
They did state that the reason for doing this April 2nd was because of, well, April 1st.
