Many were baffled when Donald Trump slapped a steep 39% tariff on imports from Switzerland. The Swiss aren't known for flooding the US with cheap goods, but their outsize role in gold refining is distorting trade data.

U.S. President Donald Trump's statement on not putting tariffs on gold has sent an encouraging signal for trade stability but only a formal decision will provide certainty, the head of the Swiss precious metals association ASFCMP said on Tuesday.

But there's one thing that won't be hit with a tariff, and that's gold. And this person said, "I miss when the federal government wasn't a meme." But one reply to Trump's post is going more viral than the rest,