Elon Musk and Steve Hanke shared clips of Milton Friedman championing free trade, and others posted clips of Dave Chappelle mocking Trump's ideas.

Pundits and social media users quickly mocked the Trump administration for imposing tariffs on islands that are unoccupied by humans and questioned whether any research went into enacting the tariffs. The Heard and McDonald Islands are also home to Australia’s two active volcanoes.

Many people are using the news as a source for humor ― and, yes, the Trump tariff memes have been on fire ever since. And since Trump inexplicably

Some of the most remote parts of the world were swept up in Trump’s tariffs, sparking questions about how his administration concluded it was being cheated by places few even knew existed. That includes a French overseas territory perched a few miles off the coast of Canada.

The Trump administration has basically no answer for why it imposed tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands off the coast of Australia. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins insisted that there was something very smart about placing a levy on the penguin-populated Heard and McDonald islands.

The Trump administration appears to be leaving no stone unturned with its sweeping tariffs around the globe, from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony.