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Trump posts map showing Iceland under U.S. flag
Arctic Today · 2026-09-07
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src="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-1024x904.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="565" srcset="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-1024x904.jpeg 1024w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-300x265.jpeg 300w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-768x678.jpeg 768w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-600x530.jpeg 600w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE-500x441.jpeg 500w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HRn2WrBbkAA7WbE.jpeg 1320w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-141142" class="wp-caption-text">President Trump posted this map of several neighbouring countries as part of the U.S.</figcaption></figure>
<p dir="ltr">President Donald J. Trump on Monday posted a map depicting North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Greenland and Iceland covered by the Stars and Stripes and labeled “United States of America.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">The image was published to his Truth Social account without accompanying text. It carried no policy statement or explanation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Iceland’s inclusion appears to be new. Earlier maps circulated by the president and his allies have shown Greenland, Canada and Venezuela.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In a July 31 interview on Real America’s Voice, Trump was asked about a host’s prediction that Greenland would be under U.S. operational control before the end of his term. <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/trump-says-you-can-bet-greenland-will-be-under-us-control/">He said the bet would be a good one</a>, and said Greenland was important from the U.S. standpoint rather than from Greenland’s. The following day he posted an image to Truth Social showing himself as a giant figure over the east Greenland town of Tasiilaq, captioned “Hello, Greenland!” — one of a series of Greenland posts he has shared since May.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Similar images have circulated from figures close to the administration. On January 3, Katie Miller, a former administration official and the wife of senior adviser Stephen Miller, <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/u-s-will-soon-annex-greenland-wife-of-top-trump-aide-implies/">posted a map of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the word “SOON.”</a> The following day, Trump <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/trump-repeats-call-for-greenland-annexation-declines-to-rule-out-force/">repeated his call for annexation and declined to rule out the use of force</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_121999" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121999" style="width: 499px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05.webp"><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-121999" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20499%20597'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="499" height="597" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-856x1024.webp 856w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-251x300.webp 251w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-768x919.webp 768w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05.webp 1098w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px" data-lazy-src="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-856x1024.webp" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-121999" src="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-856x1024.webp" alt="" width="499" height="597" srcset="https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-856x1024.webp 856w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-251x300.webp 251w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05-768x919.webp 768w, https://www.arctictoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-23.15.05.webp 1098w" sizes="(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px" /></noscript></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121999" class="wp-caption-text">Wife of top Trump aide Katie Miller, posted this controversial image on her X account last January.</figcaption></figure>
<p dir="ltr">Iceland has featured in the dispute before. In January, Trump’s pick for ambassador to Reykjavík, former U.S. Rep. Billy Long, <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/trumps-iceland-ambassador-pick-jokes-that-iceland-will-become-a-u-s-state/">joked on the House floor about making Iceland the 52nd state</a> with himself as governor. Long <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/trumps-iceland-ambassador-pick-apologizes-for-52nd-state-comment/">apologized two days later</a>, telling Arctic Today the remarks were made in jest in response to a joke about <a href="https://www.arctictoday.com/denmark-summons-us-ambassador-over-trumps-greenland-appointment/">Jeff Landry, Trump’s special envoy to Greenland</a>, becoming governor there. The Icelandic Foreign Ministry contacted the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík seeking clarification, and a petition calling on Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir to refuse to accept Long as ambassador passed 5,000 signatures. Long was later confirmed by the Senate and took up the post in early August.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Shortly after at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, Trump said “Iceland” four times when discussing Greenland in a speech, telling the audience at one point that NATO allies had liked him until he told them about Iceland.</p>
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