He probably heard the name McDonald Island, assumed that Ronald McDonald lives there, and chose to tariff the island so Ronald will give him special access to unlimited McDoubles for free.
Here at Microsoft’s upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren’t kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.
Trump tried to tariff penguins because he didn’t understand what Microsoft was talking about.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands
He probably heard the name McDonald Island, assumed that Ronald McDonald lives there, and chose to tariff the island so Ronald will give him special access to unlimited McDoubles for free.
No, this is our plan?
Here at Microsoft’s upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren’t kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.