Iceland has summoned the US ambassador aft President Donald Trump posted a representation connected societal media that appeared to amusement Iceland and respective different countries covered by the American flag.
Trump posted the representation connected Truth Social connected Monday, showing the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean covered successful stars and stripes. The full landmass was labelled "United States of America".
Iceland's overseas curate said the station was "completely inappropriate".
Trump's territorial ambitions person repeatedly strained relations with neighbouring countries, including his propulsion to get Greenland and calls to marque Canada the America's 51st state.
His station of the representation did not see a caption and preceded a flurry of posts of maps renaming the US authorities of New Mexico arsenic "New America".
Responding to Trump's post, Iceland's Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir called successful US ambassador to Iceland Billy Long, who formally took up the station past month, section media reported.
When an ambassador is summoned, it typically means they are being called for a ceremonial meeting, wherever the big state volition explicit displeasure implicit their government's actions.
The station besides drew disapproval from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who said connected Monday that the presumption of Greenland's authorities and radical had been made clear.
"The Greenlandic authorities and the Greenlandic radical person said again and again that they bash not privation to beryllium American," she told Danish quality bureau Ritzau successful Nuuk.
"I anticipation nary 1 is successful immoderate uncertainty astir that, either successful the United States oregon the remainder of the world."
Trump's interest successful Greenland has been a recurring taxable connected his societal media accounts and successful speeches since helium took bureau again past year, claiming the land is indispensable to the US to enactment up its nationalist security.
His station came soon aft the European Commission announced a €200m (£172m) concern successful the Danish territory during a sojourn by Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Frederiksen.
The European Commission said its concern would absorption connected education, net connectivity, the usage of earthy materials successful the state and hydropower energy.
Meanwhile, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico "is neither nor volition beryllium a colony oregon protectorate of immoderate overseas country," aft Trump's post.
"Proudly we are a free, independent, and sovereign nation," she wrote connected societal media.
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