In an attempt to troll folks on social media, the Trump White House instead made itself look completely moronic and got a geography lesson on Friday.
Donald Trump is nowhere close to taking over Greenland from Denmark, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, but the thought of that is still fresh on his mind.
The White House official account on X posted an AI-generated image of Orange Mussolini walking alongside a penguin on a block of ice. The penguin featured in the ai-slop is holding an American flag, and is walking alongside Trump as they head towards a Greenland flag.
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But there is one big glaring issue that many people quickly pointed out. There are no penguins in Greenland, with all 18 known species of the flightless bird confined to the southern hemisphere, most living on the Antarctic coasts and sub-Antarctic islands.
Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief at The Dispatch and a staunch never-Trumper, wrote, “There are no penguins in Greenland. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Unless maybe you meant …” adding a gif of Danny DeVito’s Penguin from Batman Returns.