As the stock market and voters continue to reel from Donald Trump’s extensive tariffs, “Late Night” host Seth Meyers was gobsmacked on Thursday night at the “existential crisis” some reporters are having over the move. More specifically, the crisis that they’re having because Trump placed a tax on uninhabited places.
Among the countries targeted by the president’s tariffs were the Heard and McDonald islands, which have a grand total population of zero. Nothing is imported from or exported to those islands, so no money will be obtained from the tariffs (Americans will primarily foot the bill for all the tariffs anyway, because that’s how tariffs work).