An attempt to troll critics by President Donald Trump’s White House backfired spectacularly on Friday as observers gave the administration a geography lesson.
As Trump openly fantasizes about taking over Greenland from Denmark, the official White House account posted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of the president walking next to a penguin on a block of ice. In the photo, the penguin carries a U.S. flag and the two walk toward a Greenland flag.
Observers quickly pounced on the post, noting the massive island contains no penguins. Indeed, all 18 penguin species are confined to the Southern Hemisphere, with the highest concentrations on Antarctic coasts and sub-Antarctic islands.
The anti-Trump account PatriotTakes wrote on X, “There are no penguins in Greenland. All Penguins live in the southern hemisphere except one species from the Galapagos Islands. Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.”
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) chided on X, “Wrong hemisphere.”
Anti-Trump conservative Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief, at The Dispatch, clapped back, “There are no penguins in Greenland. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Unless maybe you meant …” He added a gif of the Penguin from the Batman universe.
Deadline Executive Editor Dominic Patten wrote on X, “This doesn’t quite land as I think they intended ….you can take the Trump name out of the Epstein Files, but you can’t take the Epstein connection away.”
Jack Pitney, Claremont McKenna College professor, chided on X, “‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ is an old children’s book about a guy who takes penguins to the Arctic. Apparently, somebody read it to Trump when he was little, and he thought it was a true story.”
Michael Shurkin, director of global programs at 14N Strategies, fact-checked on X, “1. There are no penguins in Greenland. 2. This has all the maturity of the brain rot Reels my kids watch. Makes me wonder about the age of the kid who controls this account.”
Brian Espinoza, writer for the Rogue Rocket & Philip DeFranco Show, wrote on X, “You dumb mother f—ers, there are no penguins in the North.”
Embrace the penguin. pic.twitter.com/kKlzwd3Rx7 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 23, 2026
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