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.
I’m sorry they put tarrifs on uninhabited islands lol
Those uninhabited islands were formed specifically to rip off America!
Yet none to Russia, curious?
Trump’s mouth is Putin’s cock-holster. It’s not really all that curious.
is that nelson mandela
Nope just a Trump supporting piece of right wing shit.
The secret ingredient was hundreds of millions of dollars
Money can turn anyone into what they rail against
Maybe I’m stupid but I can’t find an example of this.
I’ve seen him being critical. I’ve seen him asking the president to have empathy.
I seen one bit back when he was first elected where he said to give him a chance. At that point nobody really knew what he was going to do. We were all hoping he was just being a showman to get elected.
I’m not picking a fight, I’m just genuinely asking for some evidence that he supports Trump because I can’t find it.
Because that island exports 1000 dollars worth of timber (or whatever) to America, but only imports 300 dollars worth of paint (or whatever) from America. Trumps child like brain sees that as them taking advantage of poor old America. The numbers must be equal or better for America or they are being cheated. Even though America needs more wood and the isle folk don’t need any more art supplies. He’s an idiot.
He thinks the trade deficit is a debt between two countries not the difference in trade between them.
Trump’s child-like mind can only understand win-lose trade agreements. He can’t fathom a win-win, or a lose-lose.
Someone he doesn’t like personally came from Norfolk Island, I’ll lay odds.
Nope, my bet is they set it based on the name alone and aren’t even aware it’s part of Australia.
Probably went: “Norfolk Island? Sounds like somewhere we can push around, 29%”.
They’re not sending their best people.
100% this. Morons all the way down
All the way up, remember that Trump is their lackey
People seem to cracked it.
It looks like he used ChatGPT to create this policy.
And ChatGPT basically calculated that trade deficit is other countries’ tariffs. Then he took that value divided by 2 and applied 10% floor.
Seriously?! Lol
This comment has even question that would provide such answers:
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
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
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!”
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?
Easy.
Someone from that island hurt Trump’s feefees 3 decades ago.
An explanation implies some thought was put in to these tariffs, but instead it was just based on Trump’s emotions that day.
I’m pretty sure that the trump regime spun two gameshow wheels: one to pick a country and another to pick a tariff percentage.
I read that they just looked at popular top level domains in some AI and generated the tarrifs from them.
All crazy places so far seem to have their own tld, so I fully support that theory
I assume he was once insulted by Eldon Foote or one of his kids.
“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.
bamboozle them with bullshit
