Iceland condemns Trump after he posted a map showing the country covered with the US flag.

Iceland condemned Trump's post of a map showing Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and several other areas under the US flag, stating it was not a joke and reiterating its support for Greenland.

On September 9, 2026, at 3:01 PM, CNBC reported that Iceland strongly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump after he posted a map on social media showing Iceland and several other countries covered in the U.S. flag. This led to the Reykjavik government summoning the U.S. ambassador, stating that the image was "completely unacceptable."

Trump posted the image via Truth Social on Monday. The map shows the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central American countries, and Caribbean islands covered by the US stars and stripes. Trump did not include any accompanying caption.

The post came after Trump had previously released several messages and images, including one suggesting that the U.S. state of New Mexico should be renamed "New America."

The Icelandic government responded by summoning Billy Long, the US Ambassador to Iceland. Icelandic Foreign Minister Thorgandur Gunnarsdottir stated that the discussion was necessary to make it clear to the US side that, from Iceland's perspective, the publication of such images was completely unacceptable.

Gunnarsdottir stated in a press conference that Iceland, a Nordic country with nearly 400,000 inhabitants, remains siding with Greenland amid Trump's desire for the United States to take control of the territory, and that the Icelandic government will not compromise on this issue.

“It is very clear that this is a fundamental principle. For me, this is not a joke, and if it was intended as a joke, it is a very bad joke,” Gunnarsdottir said, as reported by Icelandic national television station RÚV.

Trump has expressed a desire for the United States to take control of Greenland, a long-standing autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark, citing national security concerns. Earlier this year, Trump also repeatedly confused Greenland and Iceland during a special speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

In Iceland, the public recently voted in a referendum rejecting the resumption of negotiations for European Union (EU) membership, which had been suspended for 13 years. Domestic issues, particularly maintaining control over fisheries resources, outweighed concerns about geopolitical security.

The backlash against Trump's post is not limited to Iceland; Danish and Mexican government officials have also expressed displeasure with the map.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen stated that the post was worrying and highly inappropriate in many aspects, viewing it as a signal that the US president continues to hold extreme views on US expansion or territorial expansion.

Rasmussen told Denmark's DR television station , "Clearly, this is a sign that the US president still has some extreme views in his mind, and we need to curb this."

Mexican President Claudia Shebaum affirmed that Mexico is not, and will never be, a colony or protectorate of any foreign power, emphasizing that Mexico is a free, independent, and sovereign country.

The stances from Iceland, Denmark, and Mexico reflect growing diplomatic resistance to Trump's territorial ideas, particularly regarding Greenland, where the governments and their European allies have consistently maintained that the future of Greenland should be decided by its own people.

Reference: www.cnbc.com

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