
U.S. President Donald Trump posted a map on Truth Social over the holiday weekend depicting the United States spanning all of North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland, colored in the stars and stripes. According to the Associated Press, the unexplained post has stirred controversy in the North Atlantic, recalling Trump's earlier suggestions of making Canada the 51st state and his repeated musings about taking over Greenland, Denmark's self-governing territory.
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