The Worst Thing Trump Did on 4/5/25

The White House keeps trying to make the tariffs on the uninhabited, full of penguins, Heard and McDonald Islands an intentional choice, implying that if they hadn't listed the islands, the islands would've become incorporated shell country origin shipping ports for China and others to avoid tariffs.

There are a lot of stupid lies here.

• Australia runs the islands, so it'd be impossible for China to list the islands as a source of shipments.
• There are no people there.  There is no harbor, port, town, or independent government. You can instantly presume any shipments from the islands would be a lie.
• You could easily list the islands as part of Australia, which they are, and then apply Australian tariffs on them if any ships came into a US port and tried to claim them as their source.
• If a shipment of (let's say) microwaves showed up at an American port, it's a safe bet we'd all know they didn't come from the islands AS THERE IS NOTHING THERE BUT ROCKS AND PENGUINS!!!

This dire attempt to insist their mistakes are not really mistakes, but rather some sort of idiot savant Vulcan Chess is the really embarrassing part. We all know you screwed up, but you keep lying like you did when there was a sudden jump in airplane crashes, the spread of measles, and the classified Signal chat. 

One of the worst parts of this administration is watching complete morons screw up and, attempting to be clever, insisting all of us "just don't get it," while they scream gibberish into the void with smug looks on their faces.