For more than a year now, Trump has been demanding that Denmark, a historic US ally, sell Greenland to America. (Photo: X/White House)
The White House has responded to the massive online trolling of an AI-generated image posted on its X page on Friday. “The penguin does not concern himself with the opinions of those who cannot comprehend,” the White House said on Saturday, while re-sharing the original post.
The penguin does not concern himself with the opinions of those who cannot comprehend. https://t.co/R0xhDKFkot
The original post, captioned ‘embrace the penguin,’ showed Trump walking on an icy surface towards a Greenlandic flag, alongside a penguin.
It was an AI-reimagined version of a viral internet trend featuring a clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World, which shows a lone penguin walking inland toward distant mountains, away from its colony and the ocean.
Social media reaction
However, the post resulted in a meme-fest on X, with many users responding with their own spins of the White House-posted image.
Many also questioned the geographic comprehension of the White House and pointed out that penguins are not native to Greenland or the Arctic region. Penguins live in Antarctica, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, while Greenland is located in the Northern Hemisphere, between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
Recalling that Trump, during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at least four times, got Greenland and Iceland mixed up, some even wondered which of the two the US President really wanted to acquire.
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Trump’s quest to acquire Greenland
For more than a year now, Trump has been demanding that Denmark, a historic US ally, sell the semiautonomous island to America. Trump has maintained that the US needs Greenland for national security reasons and warned that the Arctic island will fall into the hands of Russia or China if it does not become an American territory.
Trump had also touted the idea of a military invasion of Greenland if Denmark refused to sell the island to the US. In the past few days, Trump and several high-ranking members of his administration had also shared maps showing both Greenland and Canada as part of the US.
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For more than a year now, Trump has been demanding that Denmark, a historic US ally, sell Greenland to America. (Photo: X/White House) 
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