The White House’s Facebook page posted an image of Donald Trump walking with a penguin on Friday and social media responded exactly as expected: by having the time of their life. The image borrows from the long-running “Nihilist Penguin” meme, which comes from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World. “I don’t think Greenland has penguins,” one Facebook user commented, politely introducing the White House to basic biology. “So we are going after Antarctica?” one user asked, apparently trying to keep up with US foreign policy via memes. “Bet it's an underage penguin,” one wrote, alongside a gif of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein talking.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2026 09:31 UTC