US EditionWhite House posts ‘Embrace the Penguin’ amid Greenland fight
The White House's AI-generated meme linking Trump to Greenland sparked criticism for geographic errors and garnered over 19 million views on social media, highlighting confusion over Arctic facts.
- The White House posted an AI-generated image on X showing President Donald Trump walking with a penguin carrying a U.S. flag toward a Greenland flag, captioned `Embrace the penguin`.
- As part of a push for a Greenland framework, President Donald Trump highlighted U.S. security and mineral access, discussing the island at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.
- Observers quickly noted the geography error in the AI slop, highlighting that all penguin species except one are native to the Southern Hemisphere and not Greenland.
- NATO and Danish officials said sovereignty was not on the table, while Copenhagen emphasized respect for territorial integrity and Greenland’s role; the 1951 U.S.-Greenland treaty allows the U.S. to enhance its military base on Greenland.
- The error gained traction online and the article was updated on January 23, 2026, with critics including Jason Kenney and Rasmus Jarlov amplifying the backlash.
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WASHINGTON.- The White House again used social media and artificial intelligence to reinforce the ambition of U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory in the Arctic. This time he did so with a cryptic message in the form of a meme that shows it alongside a penguin under the slogan “Ambrace the Penguin.” The detail did not go unnoticed and sparked an immediate controversy: the penguins do not inhabit Greenland.T…
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The official White House accounts released a photo generated by artificial intelligence today
The image, in itself, is already surreal: Donald Trump walking next to a penguin who in turn has the American flag in his hand, while both walk on a snow coat and head towards the frozen mountains on which is the flag of Greenland. But it is even more surreal that the image, created with artificial intelligence, is that of a post published on the social profile of the White House, accompanied by three words. "Embrace the penguin" embraces the pe…
The White House published a photo created with the help of artificial intelligence showing Donald Trump hand in hand with a manchot in Greenland. Except that the animal does not live on the territory
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