Why Greenland is important to the US
The co-hosts of the ‘Relentless Podcast’ discuss President Donald Trump’s efforts to reach a deal on Greenland, Bill Maher, Dana Carvey and David Spade’s conversation about the Democratic Party and more about ‘One Nation’.
The left can’t meme. That has been an online reality for years. And they get outraged when the right does it. That has been the reality since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s political era. I still remember my favorite Trump meme – the one that re-did his WWE appearance but still turned it into a CNN presidential slam in 2017. Hilarious. Even more so because of the media freakout.
Fast forward almost nine years, and Trump is still musing and the press is still outraged. The latest meme links Trump to the infamous lonely penguin. The White House combined an iconic image of the penguin marching away alone as Trump joined him. Add an American flag and some Greenland mountains with the caption: “Hug the penguin.”
The response was predictable: a flood of angry responses and terrible headlines. First the awful: Forbes chimed in with “TikTok’s ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ meme, explained.” Shockingly, they weren’t the only ones to put the ‘nihilistic penguin’ in the headlines, which is hopefully a first for humanity. USA Today, The Independent and The Week all came up with similar headlines of the day. There hasn’t been this much hatred towards the Penguin since the last Batman movie.
Trump and a penguin managed to panic the left. (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP)
Then came the frenzy from the left. Under the heading “Climate Change,” Gizmodo lamented, “Trump urges Americans to embrace a suicidal penguin as the ‘Doomsday Clock’ strikes 85 seconds to midnight.” The outlet tried to get all the science by embracing a completely false measure of how close Judgment Day is. These are the same people who are convinced that Mother Nature is extremely angry with humanity.
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As an added bonus, it said: “There are no penguins in Greenland.”
I want to write that no one cares, but some in the press clearly did. So I don’t stay with anyone important. Only about 57,000 people live in Greenland. It would have to look like the Opus-filled version of the Falklands (3,500 people, 500,000 sheep) before people would care about the penguins in Greenland. Put another way, Greenland is comparable to the population of megacities like Kalamazoo, Michigan, and near me, Gainesville, Georgia. But bigger than Alaska and California combined. “Hee Haw” fans, say it with me: “Greetings!”
Trump and his multimedia accomplices are not interested in any of that. They think it is important that they have kept the whole world talking about Trump and Greenland. And Trump. And the press looked foolish and made a fuss about it. That’s a win, another win, another win. Oh, and a win.
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Unfortunately, Gizmodo wasn’t the only site made up of soulless, humorless swear words – the Karens of the internet. Lefty Mediaite unknowingly embraced the “Ackchyually” meme while complaining, “The White House is publishing Trump’s AI Slop and a penguin in Greenland, which has no penguins.” The Hill went the same route, noting, “Social media users were quick to mock the White House post, pointing out that penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.”
The bitter folks at The Daily Beast had to remind their equally bitter readers of Trump’s age in their headline: “Trump, 79, Breathes New Life into Greenland Fantasy With Absurd AI Post.” Yes, at 79 years old, he’s still better at this game than the entire Daily Beast staff. Newsweek warned: “White House meme about Greenland penguin sparks jokes and backlash.” Horrors, not ‘blowbacks’. That never happens.
The pre-Trump penguin image is from the 2007 documentary ‘Encounters at the End of the World’. The White House responded to the foolish media uproar, writing: “The penguin is not concerned with the opinions of those who cannot understand.” That’s a paraphrase of the famous quote: “The lion does not care about the opinions of the sheep.” Sheep, my left-wing journalistic friends, means you will.
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Regular online people (i.e. not Gizmodo staff) also know that the penguin is a metaphor. Conservatives, especially conservative men, see the penguin going off alone as a statement that they don’t have to follow the crowd, that the penguin “no longer belongs where everyone else is,” as one TikToker put it. That he can find his own way in the world.
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That is the essence of Trump’s appeal. The essence of America First, the opposite of the globalist nightmare that exported jobs and imported job workers. The US doesn’t have to do what other countries do. The US does not need to commit cultural suicide, embrace open borders or censor online speech like Europe and the rest of the West. We don’t have to destroy ourselves in a modern version of World War I, like Russia. We can be strong, independent and successful.
We are not the 1985 propaganda hit, “We Are the World.” We are the penguin. Trump gets it. The press and their left-wing allies will never do that.
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