Reform’s mayoral candidate replicates Donald Trump’s controversial Greenland penguin picture | EUROtoday

Reform UK’s mayoral candidate has been criticised for her “baffling” recreation of Donald Trump’s AI generated picture of him strolling with a penguin in Greenland.

Last week, the White House posted a controversial picture displaying the US president strolling by means of snow with a penguin holding a US flag.

The picture, which additionally featured a Greenland flag flying within the distance, was posted by the White House on X alongside the caption “Embrace the penguin”.

The submit sparked additional issues about Mr Trump’s ambitions within the Nato territory, and now seems to have impressed Reform UK’s candidate for the London mayoralty, Laila Cunningham.

On Sunday, Ms Cunningham appeared to duplicate the picture, changing Mr Trump together with her personal silhouette and inserting a Union Jack flag and Tower Bridge within the background.

The Reform councillor for Westminster captioned the submit: “Choose a new path for London. Before it’s too late.”

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The submit got here simply days after figures throughout the political spectrum and British veterans condemned Mr Trump for falsely claiming Nato allies stayed away from the entrance strains through the conflict in Afghanistan.

President Trump later climbed down over his slurs after sparking widespread outrage after days of the US president antagonising Nato over his ambitions to personal Greenland.

Although Trump agreed to a “framework of a future deal” in Greenland final week, the AI-generated picture steered he nonetheless remained within the Danish territory.

Ms Cunningham’s submit garnered additional criticism, with some dubbing it “Absolutely tone-deaf”.

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Journalist and creator Oliver Kamm wrote: “I may be wrong but I suspect the instinctive obeisance given by Reform UK to a thuggish, seditious, repressive, violent, imperialist, kleptocratic, corrupt, xenophobic & ferociously misogynistic US administration will not prove an electoral advantage.”

Others questioned what the which means of the apocalyptic type London may very well be.

One particular person wrote: “What on Earth is the message in this daft imagery copied from @WhiteHouse? Does she think net zero will make London like Antarctica? Is this her vision for an expanded Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park? Does she want to liberate penguins from London zoo?”

“’Vote for the candidate that’ll turn London into a frozen hellscape’- persuasive,” one other mentioned.

Others raised issues over the timing of the submit: “Here’s Reform posting and embarrassing pile of AI s**** mimicking the man who insulted UK veterans this week. They’re somewhere between a bad joke and outright traitors.”

Ms Cunningham was unveiled because the get together’s candidate for the 2028 election in a press convention with Nigel Farage earlier this month.

After turning into a Conservative Westminster City councillor in 2022, the mother-of-seven defected to Reform in June final yr, saying she needed to combat for “lower taxes, controlled borders, and putting Britain first”.