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US President Donald Trump has triggered fresh diplomatic controversy after posting a map appearing to show Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Mexico and the Caribbean as part of the United States.
Iceland responded by summoning the US ambassador on Tuesday, describing the map as “wholly inappropriate” and making clear its objection to the depiction.
The map, posted by Trump on his Truth Social platform, showed the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and the Caribbean covered in the US flag. The entire landmass was labelled “United States of America”, without any accompanying explanation from the president.
The post came during a flurry of messages by Trump over the US Labor Day weekend, with the president publishing about 100 posts on Truth Social, according to an AFP count.
Trump also shared a cartoon depicting him playing ice hockey against Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. In the image, Trump tells Carney, who is shown lying on the ice, “Get up, governor.”
The latest controversy comes as relations between Washington and Ottawa remain strained by an escalating trade dispute. Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars worth of US products on Tuesday in response to US trade measures.
Trump has repeatedly argued that Canada should become the 51st state of the United States, a proposal Ottawa has firmly rejected.
His latest territorial-themed posts have also included an image depicting Trump receiving former US President George Washington in the Oval Office, adding to a series of provocative images and claims about US territorial expansion.
The Icelandic government’s decision to summon the US ambassador has now turned the latest map into a diplomatic issue, with Reykjavik formally objecting to the inclusion of its territory in the depiction of an expanded United States.
