“Embrace the penguin”: the White House post generated with AI on
An idea taken from the 2007 documentary “Encounters at the end of the world” by Werner Herzog, which also immortalizes a penguin that moves away from the group alone in a direction contrary to life.
But the image launched by the tycoon’s social managers has sparked quite a few ironies and memes on social media, starting from the fact that penguins only live in the southern hemisphere.
Irony and memes on social networks
There are those who remind the president that cutting funding for education perhaps wasn’t a good idea and those who instead give the penguin the floor: “You know that this isn’t Greenland, right?”.
Others commented by posting a map highlighting the areas where specimens of the animal can be found. The most hostile, however, suggested that Trump’s best companion in his conquest of Greenland would be a polar bear.
Political criticism from Canada and Europe
Former Canadian Defense Minister and Alberta Premier Jason Jennedy commented: «In the same week that he made a fool of himself on Greenland and confused Iceland with Greenland several times, now his staff is confusing Antarctica with Greenland. The most powerful nation on Earth run like a clown show.”
Economists’ reactions and the precedent of tariffs on penguins
«Trump wants to reiterate once again that he is a complete idiot. Greenland is not home to penguins, and Trump has no rights to either Greenland or penguins. Is this really the White House? Then the White House is an ignorant joke,” echoed Swedish economist Anders Aslung. Finally, there are those who remember another White House gaffe with these animals, when on Liberation Day the newly elected president also imposed duties on Heard and McDonald Islands, populated only by innocent penguins.