What did the poor penguins on this isolated island off of Antarctica do to deserve this?

[Still-alive]

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-australia-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands

President Trump's sweeping tariffs announced Wednesday extend to countries and territories across the world — including the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean.

The big picture: The remote UNESCO World Heritage-listed Australian territory, which features a mostly barren landscape, was included in the list of baseline 10% taxes on U. S. imports, along with mainland Australia.

Zoom in: This region that features the only volcanically active sub-Antarctic islands is "teeming" with colonies of seals, penguins and other birds

[Apulu_backagain]

As someone who's been certified by all her cousins that she has penguin walk, I'm offended. How do you DARE to play with MY people?

[Apulu_backagain]

Read today's newspaper and it had the most unhinged headline
"Trump got a problem with Penguins"

A whole 1/4th of the newspaper's front page dedicated to that and a meme which was funny which is rare for news headlines. My dad said he chose that cuz he was focused on the 'McDonalds' as a true American.

[Still-alive]

Lol your dads funny

[Apple1996]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-y6vm5rooTo

Trump must have sucked at this game and now he hates penguins because of it 🐧

[Still-alive]

Or Trump and his kid did this in mario 64 and were like 'lol we should do that for reals!'

[Apple1996]

Omg not throwing the baby penguins 😭

[MisterWack]

Dementia Don strikes again, the uninhabited island home to Penguins.

Here is a joke for you (other than the Trump Administration)

Why did Trump tariff the island of ice & snow?
Because he confused it with snowflakes

Not funny? Good because having people this incompetent in power is no laughing matter. ‘RedWhiteandBlueLand’ & ‘District of America’ & ‘Gulf of America’ won’t stand for this, right my fellow Unicorns, Jackalopes, and Alien Lizard Men?

[RedInnocent69]

From an international trade consultant: “The best analogy I’ve managed to come up with for all this is like if you got to the pearly gates of heaven and St Peter said ‘I am going to evaluate whether you’ve lived a righteous enough life to get in here’ and then all he actually did was divided your speeding fines by your parking fines to arrive at a percentage of righteousness.” Clearly, penguins don’t go to heaven

[Lynx122]

It's about respect. Show them who's boss. :D

[goaded]

Ah, the abusive father figure. That's always good.

[queenofcardio]

I saw this on the news when it first came out. Crazy.

[DrPepper12]

He's still butthurt over club penguin shutting down..