Trump Urges People to Embrace a Suicidal Penguin as ‘Doomsday Clock’ Hits 85 Seconds to Midnight

A video clip from the 2007 documentary Encounters on the Finish of the World, directed by Werner Herzog, began spreading on social media earlier this month, exhibiting a lone penguin that abandons different penguins to go die alone. The clip is disturbing when you recognize the explanation this penguin is strolling off into nothingness. However that didn’t cease the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety from sharing the clip approvingly on X last week, completely illustrating simply how weird President Donald Trump’s authorities has develop into on social media.

As greatest we will inform, DHS likes the penguin video as a result of it’s associated to snow and ice, one thing it connects with Greenland. President Trump has repeatedly mentioned he needs to take over Greenland, which has alarmed European leaders sufficient that they’ve despatched troops to the nation to guard it from an American invasion.

It needs to be famous that Greenland doesn’t have any penguins, however the idiots within the Trump administration clearly don’t know that. The penguin video shared by DHS is edited to incorporate footage of President Trump, Kristi Noem, Border Patrol, and ICE brokers. Viewers additionally see unidentified brokers storming houses and usually trying fairly fascist.

“However certainly one of them caught our eye, the one within the middle,” the narration explains.

“He would neither go in direction of the feeding grounds on the fringe of the ice, nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards, we noticed him heading straight in direction of the mountains, some 70 kilometers away. Dr. Ainslie defined that even when he caught him and introduced him again to the colony, he would instantly head proper again for the mountains. However why?”

People have at all times identified “why” pic.twitter.com/dcQNCtkNKk

— Homeland Safety (@DHSgov) January 24, 2026

The penguin portion is outwardly being interpreted by DHS as one thing extra akin to a daring explorer getting down to conquer new territory. Nevertheless, it truly exhibits a penguin that has gone “loopy” in accordance with Herzog’s personal narration within the full movie.

Werner Herzog posted an Instagram video a few days in the past to speak concerning the clip going viral. He defined that he was impressed by the narration for the Nineteen Eighties TV present Unsolved Mysteries. And Herzog talks about crucial a part of the viral clip: studying about “madness” in penguins which are “deranged.”

Trump has been extra express concerning the connection to Greenland in different posts, like one from the White Home X account on Jan. 23 that exhibits an AI-generated picture of a penguin and Trump holding arms. The flag of Greenland seems within the background. The penguin is holding an American flag because it approaches, an emblem of conquering the nation.

Embrace the penguin. pic.twitter.com/kKlzwd3Rx7

— The White Home (@WhiteHouse) January 23, 2026

Even when Trump and his cronies don’t perceive what’s truly happening within the viral video clip they shared, it feels acceptable for this loopy second. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the notorious “Doomsday Clock” (an emblem of how shut the group believes we’re to the destruction of the world) to 85 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, the closest it’s ever been to whole annihilation.

The clock is supposed to attract consideration to the existential threats we face, and this 12 months, they pointed to the modernization of nuclear supply programs in the USA, Russia, and China, in addition to Trump’s plan for the Golden Dome missile system. The group additionally checked out local weather change and the best way that AI is accelerating misinformation, which may very well be catastrophic to humanity in its personal proper.

The Doomsday Clock is in some ways a foolish relic of the Chilly Conflict period—a headline-grabbing method to discuss concerning the threats confronted by humanity throughout any given 12 months. But it surely’s additionally not improper. We’re self-evidently dwelling by means of a harmful time beneath harmful leaders.

“Our present trajectory is unsustainable. Nationwide leaders—notably these in the USA, Russia, and China—should take the lead find a path away from the brink. Residents should insist they achieve this,” the group wrote.

Don’t be the penguin. Working away from the colony to die alone isn’t a good suggestion, it doesn’t matter what the Division of Homeland Safety is telling you with their silly little movies.