Twitter transforms Trump into penguin in latest social media challenge (PHOTOS)
While US President Donald Trump is busy playing down explosive allegations about how his White House functions, online satirists are busy replacing him with photoshopped penguins.
It all started on Thursday evening when popular comedian, writer, director and satirist Armando Iannucci – responsible for such comedic masterpieces as ‘I’m Alan Partridge,’ and ‘The Thick of It’ – tweeted a proposal to his Twitter followers.
Proposal: If you take any piece of footage of Trump in a White House meeting, and replaced Trump with a penguin, the expressions on the faces of everyone else in the room would still work. Twitter, let’s see what you can do.
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) September 6, 2018
Naturally, Twittizens wasted no time in firing up Photoshop in a bid to outdo each other in deriding the US president in as creative a fashion as possible, with many choosing world leaders from some of the most powerful nations on Earth to act as a comedic foil to the gigantic penguins.
#replaceTrumpwithapenguinpic.twitter.com/fXeprBlSq5
— Dylan Brady (@dylanfbrady) September 6, 2018
— Stuart Taylor (@stuartctaylor) September 6, 2018
Got to love this #ReplaceTrumpWithAPenguinpic.twitter.com/Wxg1t2GbPo
— Jon Robinson (@jonrobinson500) September 6, 2018
— Dr Adam Levy (@ClimateAdam) September 6, 2018
Meanwhile others chose even more surrealist interpretations of the challenge.
#ReplaceTrumpWithAPenguin might be my favourite hashtag of 2018.Best so far is this beauty from @chayground... pic.twitter.com/IT9TtY6j3B
— Neil Coleman (@neilgcoleman) September 6, 2018
Trumpingu #replaceTrumpwithapenguinpic.twitter.com/19uKHHj99C
— james (@ambienteering) September 7, 2018
Not a Whitehouse meeting, but..... #ReplaceTrumpWithAPenguinpic.twitter.com/M8BQPHFQJp
— Alexander Jones (@BigAlexJones) September 6, 2018
— John Stansfield (@johnwinsagain) September 6, 2018
Twitter continues to fill up with the bizarre photoshopped scenes. The latest efforts can be seen by checking out #ReplaceTrumpWithAPenguin.
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