‘This is not a joke’: Iceland condemns Trump’s post showing island under American flag

Denmark and Mexico also objected, underscoring the diplomatic backlash to Trump's territorial ambitions. President Donald Trump 's social media post of a map that appears to show the island and several other countries covered by the American flag. Trump posted the image on Truth Social on Monday, depicting the U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean under the Stars and Stripes flag [1].

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1. cnbc.com · ‘This is not a joke’: Iceland condemns Trump’s post showing island under American flag Sep 9, 2026

This is the neutral brief the press writes once, for everyone, before each reader’s paper adds its own so-what. It links out; it does not republish. 1 article clustered.

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