Trump Joins ‘Nihilist Penguin Meme’, Gets Backfired By Trollers
Washington : Humour or Confusion? From bombarding tariffs to wanting a Nobel Peace Prize and now after Greenland here comes the dream of the Arctic Island. The White House shared a post symbolizing Donald Trump walking with the penguin eyeing Arctic Island. The caption read, “Embrace the penguin.” Following the recent viral trend “nihilist penguin meme”, the photo depicts footsteps of Donald Trump walking with Penguin hand in hand with the America Flag eyeing towards Arctic Island.
On Saturday, the White House shared a post symbolizing Donald Trump walking with the penguin eyeing Arctic Island. The caption read, “Embrace the penguin.” Following the recent viral trend “nihilist penguin meme”, the photo depicts footsteps of Donald Trump walking with Penguin hand in hand with the America Flag eyeing towards Arctic Island.
So what exactly is a nihilist penguin meme trend ?
A nihilist penguin is a popular internet symbol for existential confusion, inspired by a scene in Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World, it shows a lone penguin walking away from its colony toward the empty, frozen interior of Antarctica for no apparent reason. It represents the “absurd” side of life, that feeling of being a tiny creature in a vast universe, suddenly deciding the standard “rules” of survival don’t matter and wandering off into the unknown. Essentially, it is a mix of dark humor and deep philosophy used to describe someone who finds life’s typical goals meaningless and chooses their own, albeit doomed, path.
However, it seems the picture didn’t land well as the netizens were clever enough to teach the US President a lesson. So since penguins don’t live in Greenland. The seabirds are only found in countries or regions in the Southern Hemisphere, with their largest population in Antarctica whereas Greenland is in the Northern Hemisphere which clearly was a huge mistake noticed by the users. X users gave the White House a brutal reality check, with some of the befitting replies featuring their own AI-generated content.
For months the US president has glued his eyes on Greenland, of which America claims Arctic territory to be a crucial part of their national security. After giving continuous warnings to Denmark that if a deal is not cracked between the two nations the country might face some military actions to gain control over the regime. It led Denmark and its ally countries in Europe to send troops to safeguard the interest of Greenland but indeed it raged the fuel more followed by Trump’s announcement of 10% tariffs on seven European nations along with the UK over the arctic territory.
Significantly, in a major move during the World Economic Forum held at Davos these tariffs remain invalid announced by Trump itself. He further added that the deal for the Greenland framework stands still.