India, Jan. 24 -- A new trend is doing the rounds on social media, featuring an image of a penguin apparently wandering away from its colony into the barren interior of Antarctica. The meme, dubbed "Nihilist Penguin", has gone viral across platforms, and the White House has also joined the trend by posting an image of US President Donald Trump alongside the penguin in what was seen as an extension of the Republican leader's obsession with Greenland.

In the image, a penguin holds the US flag, while the mountains carry the Greenland flag, with the caption, "Embrace the Penguin." However, it did not go viral online as the White House may have expected.

A short video showing a lone penguin moving away from its group towards far-off Antarcti...