{"id":16387,"date":"2026-01-24T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16387"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:16:03","slug":"president-promises-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16387","title":{"rendered":"President promises penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>The disgraced former 45th and current disgraceful 47th President of the United States, adjudicated sexual predator, condemned business fraudster, convicted felon and compulsive liar, one Donald John Trump (<em>who is on a personal quest to Make America Grate Again or something similar. Ed.<\/em>), has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/10\/12\/1705902\/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had\">never been renowned for his intellectual prowess<\/a>. This, plus his overweening narcissism, means that for his second spell of squatting in the Oval Office, he has surrounded himself with sycophantic staff who will not embarrass him mainly because they are just as stupid as their boss, if not more so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This stupidity was again on display yesterday on the White House social media accounts, with a post based on the <em>lonely penguin<\/em> meme from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werner_Herzog\">Werner Herzog<\/a> film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1093824\/\">Encounters at the End of the World<\/a>. The meme features footage of a lone <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ad%C3%A9lie_penguin\">Ad\u00e9lie penguin<\/a> wandering away from its colony in Antarctica and was posted in connection with the Tangerine Tyrant&#8217;s obsession with <em>acquiring<\/em> Greenland from Denmark, an ambition which has provoked both a consumer boycott (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16385\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c338rm41y88o\">demonstrations in both Denmark itself and Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s what White House staffers embarrassed themselves and the entire Trump regime with yesterday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/penguins_greenland.png\" alt=\"Under the caption embrace the penguin' a penguin carrying a US flag walks hand in hand with Donald Trump across a snowy mountainous landscape with a red and white Greenland flag on the left flank of the mountains\" width=\"600\" height=\"872\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/penguins_greenland.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/penguins_greenland-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Needless to say the image was produced with the aid of Artificial Ignorance, otherwise abbreviated to AI.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Moreover, it goes without saying that the post attracted extensive mockery online. Here&#8217;s an example.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/greenland_clown.png\" alt=\"Reworking of White House image, but featuring tRump in a clown outfit\" width=\"543\" height=\"665\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/greenland_clown.png 543w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/greenland_clown-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>However, this criticism overlooks one vital fact; The Donald&#8217;s importing of penguins to Greenland is a far better use of US tax dollars than towing Greenland down to the southern polar region to enable it to be populated by penguins! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disgraced former 45th and current disgraceful 47th President of the United States, adjudicated sexual predator, condemned business fraudster, convicted felon and compulsive liar, one Donald John Trump (who is on a personal quest to Make America Grate Again or something similar. Ed.), has never been renowned for his intellectual prowess. This, plus his overweening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,17,15,34],"tags":[49,36,10,20,35],"class_list":["post-16387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-oddities","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-ai","tag-comment","tag-facepalm","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16387"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16487,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16387\/revisions\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}