Trump’s administration this week has charged caring tariffs around the world, causing retaliation from other countries and sending the upload of the stock market. An unexpected consequence? Ponguin memes.

Flight -free birds this week made it over the Internet after President Trump imposed tariffs on Heard Island and McDonaldAustralian territories near Antarctica containing many penguins, but there are no people.

One mediator contained a modified photo Explosive meeting of the White House in February in which Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance clashed publicly with the President of Volodymyr Green from Ukraine. Instead of a fiery conflict with the leader of war times, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance sit next to the black and white bird.

One person who published meme wrote, “Maybe she said thank you?” In a possible reference to Mr. Vance’s charges that Mr. Zelensky did not properly thank the United States for the military support of Washington, he provided Kiev during the war.

A different mem showed penguin teaching of marine seagulls to direct their waste on TeslasObviously nods adviser to Mr. Trump billionaire, Elon Musk. More more He showed a huge gathering of penguins with an inscription stating an “unprecedented protest” on the islands of Heard and McDonald, “as the population rises” against Mr. Trump’s imposition on the Tariff on the whole board.

AND UNESCO The World Heritage Convention notes the islands “the complete absence of aliens of aliens and animals, as well as human influence.” Still, Mr. Trump included a desolate islands on his list, imposing a 10 % fundamental tariff that he put on almost all goods imported in the United States.

The announcement on Wednesday, described by Mr. Trump as the American “Release Day”, has sent shock waves around the world, while both allies and opponents have tried their best to understand new and huge tariffs. The move sent US import duties to the highest levels in more than a century.

Also for the new tariffs was the British Territory of the Indian Ocean, a collection of mostly uninhabited islands, except for US and British soldiers stationed on a common military bases.

Other islands under the tariffs included Tokelau, the territory of New Zealand, which has less than 2,000 inhabitants; Norwegian islands of Svalbard, which has about 3,000 inhabitants; and Jan Mayen, where the only people are military staff who manage time and coastal services.

Mr. Trump said a little about the methodology behind the new calculation system, but it seems that the new tariff rate of each country comes from a a formula This requires a trade deficit of America, and America deals with the nation and shares it with exports that the state sent to the United States. The White House explained its methodology In this postwhich basically confirms that formula.

Then, because Mr. Trump said he was “kind”, the final tariff number was cut in half.

It is not clear how the administration decided to add the islands and McDonald islands to the tariff list. The White House did not immediately respond to the comment request.

Jenny Gross contribute to reporting.