Garrison Davis

The last Penguin post we'll consider is a video edit from the Department of Homeland Security.

It starts like many of the viral TikTok and Reels videos with footage and narration from Herzog's documentary, which I will finally play here.

After the narration cuts out, the music continues as a fan cam style montage plays Trump, military helicopters, SWAT style home raids, and ICE and Border Patrol arresting people.

The video is captioned, Americans have always known why, in response to Herzog's query.

This post from the DHS asserts that part of the essence of America is breaking away from the herd and forging your own path.

Those who don't understand Trump's desire to control Greenland at the risk of further damaging our geopolitical standing just suffer from herd mentality and will never be strong enough to take the kind of risks that are core to the existence of this country.

On January 24th, the White House posted, the penguin does not concern himself with the opinions of those who cannot comprehend.

For Trump, Venezuela, Greenland, imperial expansion is an existential mission to achieve some mythic frontier greatness and only true Americans can understand why.

The Fox News Penguin op-ed by Christian nationalist Sean Duffy's daughter, wow, that's a nightmare sentence, reads, quote, "'For Trump, the penguin is an apt symbol for the president's decade-long fight against the radical left.

Everything Trump does is opposed by the global power brokers.

Even the president's push to obtain Greenland has been fanatically opposed by hysterical European elites.'"

America was built by penguins, and by that I mean rebels, pilgrims, frontier men and women, conquistadors and cowboys.

We are a nation founded by risk-takers who left the colony for the mountains.

We are descended from men who suffered and died to carve civilization out of wilderness.

It is our inheritance."

Now, what this DHS Penguin video doesn't include, but has already been alluded to by some of the other videos I've played, is the actual context of this lone bird's journey and its sad fate.

We will return to discuss Penguin insanity after this ad break.

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Though the 2026 version of the penguin meme was dubbed the lonely penguin, earlier meme videos of this documentary footage from years past carried the titles deranged penguin or nihilist penguin.

Before the footage of this lone penguin plays in the documentary, Herzog asks a penguin expert if they can experience insanity.