Iceland summons US ambassador after Trump posts map of US annexing island

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Iceland summoned the United States’s ambassador to the country for a discussion after President Donald Trump posted a map featuring the Arctic island and several other countries falling under the American flag.

The graphic showed Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba among the countries that the United States hypothetically annexes in this scenario. Trump made the Truth Social post without any explanation on Monday.

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