The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has ridiculed the administration of US President Donald Trump for using the popular ‘Nihilist penguin’ meme to promote its campaign to gain control of Greenland.
On Saturday, the White House’s page on X decided to exploit the hype around the meme, which features a lone Adelie penguin abandoning his colony to walk towards distant icy mountains.
It published an AI-generated picture of Trump leading the flightless bird by his wing along an ice-covered plane towards the mountains, where a flag of Greenland is erected. In his other wing, the penguin is holding a US flag. “Embrace the penguin,” the caption reads.