President Trump’s latest map has set off alarm bells across the North Atlantic.
Over the Labor Day weekend, Mr. Trump posted a map on Truth Social showing the United States stretching across North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland, colored in the red, white and blue of the American flag. He offered no explanation, but the post revived his past talk of making Canada the 51st state and his repeated interest in taking over Greenland, Denmark’s self-governing territory.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen didn’t hold back. “It’s disturbing and, in many ways, completely inappropriate,” Mr. Rasmussen told broadcaster DR, adding that Mr. Trump “still harbors some kind of maximalist vision in his own mind.”
Iceland’s government summoned U.S. Ambassador Billy Long over the post. Foreign Secretary Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir said she made clear it was unacceptable, according to broadcaster RÚV. Iceland has been alarmed since Mr. Trump mistakenly named the country four times while talking about Greenland, a mix-up that led its government to move up a referendum on resuming EU membership talks. Voters rejected the measure Aug. 30.
Mr. Long had already apologized earlier this year after joking about Iceland becoming the 52nd state with him as governor.
The map fits a broader pattern: Mr. Trump has also renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” amid a trade war with Canada and floated calling New Mexico “New America.”
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