Iceland angered over Trump map posted online

Iceland's foreign minister summoned the US ambassador over a controversial map of North America posted by Donald Trump on Truth Social.

The map showed Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, and Iceland under the US flag, with only the United States of America named, causing outrage in multiple countries.

Trump's graphic also sparked anger in Mexico and Denmark, with leaders emphasizing their countries' sovereignty and opposition to becoming part of the United States.

A controversial map of North Americ a shared on the Truth Social platform by US President Donald Trump has caused an outcry in Iceland.

The country's foreign minister, Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, summoned the US ambassador on Monday, a ministry spokesman told dpa. It was made "unambiguously" clear that the image was "completely inappropriate," he said.

On Monday, Trump posted a North America map that shows, among other places, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba and Iceland under the US flag. Only one country name appears on the map: United States of America. Trump did not add a written comment to the map.

The Republican has repeatedly flirted with the idea of annexing other countries and islands.

He has suggested that Canada could become the 51st state of the United States. He wants to buy Greenland and argues that only the United States can defend the island, which belongs to Denmark, against ambitions from Russia or China for example.

The graphic also caused outrage in Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on the X platform that her country was not and never would be a colony or a protectorate of a foreign country.

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, according to the Ritzau news agency, that Greenlanders had repeatedly made clear they did not want to be part of the United States.