Memes about penguins being embroiled in a trade war with the U.S. are flooding the timeline, and it's all because U.S. President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on over 180 countries and happened to include an uninhabited speck of rock and ice called Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
The population of the island is literally zero. Unless you, like the U.S. government, count penguins as economic actors.
The internet took one look at Trump's list and noticed the strange decision to tax the remote islands, and now we’re knee-deep in penguin protest memes.