White House posts an AI image of the President walking toward Greenland with a penguin.

The official White House social media account, on Saturday morning, posted an AI-generated image of the President of the United States walking toward Greenland, alongside a penguin. The caption read Embrace the penguin.

Hon. Hon, hon, hon. I have been a waitress for thirty years. I have been a bartender for the rest of them. I have served drinks to all kinds of confused men. I have served drinks to confused men who did not work for the federal government. I have served drinks to confused men who did work for the federal government and were off-duty. I have never, in my whole working life, heard somebody from a federal building tell me, on the official letterhead of the federal building, that the penguin lives in Greenland.

The penguin does not live in Greenland. The penguin lives in Antarctica. The penguin lives at the other pole. The two poles are the two opposite ends of the planet. This was covered, again, in second grade. Mrs. Pennington’s chart had penguins on the bottom and polar bears on the top. They are arranged that way because that is where the animals are.

The replies to the post, mostly from people who did not work for the federal government, pointed this out. Within hours.

The official White House account, not the President’s personal account, the official one, the one staffed by federal employees, the one that is literally an arm of the federal government, posted a follow-up. The follow-up read: The penguin does not concern himself with the opinions of those who cannot comprehend.

The penguin does not concern himself.

You ever notice how the people who say we cannot comprehend are also the people who think the penguin lives in Greenland. That is the part that concerns me, hon. The part where the federal communications shop, instead of saying whoops, we put the wrong animal in the picture, decides to attack the people who can read a map by quoting the penguin like he’s a guru.

The penguin is not a guru. The penguin is a flightless seabird whose nearest natural population is eight thousand miles from the island the President is, in the AI image, walking toward.

Look. I am not saying this is the worst thing that happened this week. January was a long month. The week of the airstrike on Caracas, the vaccine schedule, the eight-country tariff threat, the federal building lockout, the Ford-plant middle finger, and now the geographically incorrect penguin? That is a lot of weeks for one week.

But somewhere in the federal communications shop, on a Saturday morning, a federal employee whose paycheck I am paying for typed embrace the penguin and clicked post. And then, when the country pointed out the penguins live somewhere else, the same federal employee typed the penguin does not concern himself and clicked post again.

That ought to concern you.