The markets fall but at least the memes tariffs are gold

Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” means that prices are suddenly everywhere. This means that the memes tariffs are also everywhere.

On Wednesday, the American president signed an executive decree imposing a reference rate of 10% on all countries, taking effect on Saturday and adding reciprocal rates.

The global markets have dropped to the news.

But if there is one thing on which you can count in the midst of disorders – financial or other – it is that some people will always have a sense of humor on this subject, even if it is a bit dark. Thus, social media users have expressed their fears and their economic anxieties in the modern way: with the memes.

Here are some of the best:

Take advantage, for example, the image showing Trump, shouting: “Pay the prices!” in a group of penguins.

Trump’s prices include the Australian territory of the Île heard and the McDonald’s islands – a pair of remote -off islands uninhabited by humans but which shelters penguins, sea birds and seals.

The same refers to the one who comes from 2017, in which Trump seemed as if he were crying on an 11 -year -old boy who had asked to mow the lawn of the White House.

Another meme shows the superhero of Marvel Wolverine lying in his bed, looking with envy a studio of Ghibli-Fied of the former American secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, holding a sheet of new tickets at $ 1. Mnuchin was secretary to the Treasury during Trump’s first term.

Users of the Openai chatgpt recently launched a trend in using the AI ​​chatbot to transform regular photos into images in the distinctive style of the Ghibli studio, the animation studio behind films like “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”.

In the original photo of 2017, Mnuchin was at the engraving and printing office in Washington, DC, to see the first $ 1 ticket journey featuring his signature. At the time, the image of the couple of trying skill posing with money quickly made comparisons with the bad guys of James Bond, but the new image gives the impression that the person who published it could have preferred this to the chaos of today’s market.

A different meme shows Patrick Schwarzenegger as a Ratliff saxon in season 3 of “The White Lotus”, a HBO Zeitgeisty show – and strongly even. He plays a toxic financial brother on a family vacation.

“Listen, the prices of the goods increasing and my portfolio drop is not necessarily a bad thing, because I like to work and it simply means that I have to cring even stronger now,” legend the photo.

And who could forget the famous meme of “arrested development” of the rich matriarch Lucille Bluth estimating a banana costs $ 10? The joke is supposed to emphasize how rich and touchdown the BLLUTH is, but “Intionally, this is what is happening in America at the moment,” wrote a person on X.

“I just won with my financial advisor, he just told me that my 401k was now a 400K,” tweeted a different person, alongside a photo of the late actor and actor Rodney Dangerfield.

And finally, a user tweeted an image of an almost entirely red thermal card with a superimposed image of the vice-president JD Vance asking: “Did you say thank you once?”

Vance has been Photoshopped to seem to have a bigger face, which has been a meme trend in recent weeks. The question is a reference to the disputed meeting of Trump and Vance with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February. During this meeting, Vance reprimanded Zelenskyy for not having a costume and asked him: “Did you say thank you once?” Regarding American aid in the country, which Russia invaded in 2022.