Trump’s flag-draped map of North America alarms European allies

WASHINGTON (MNTV) — European governments have reacted sharply to a map President Donald Trump posted showing nearly all of North America — including sovereign states and European territories — under the U.S. flag, deepening concern that Washington increasingly treats other nations’ sovereignty as negotiable.

Posted on Truth Social without explanation, the image placed Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Greenland, and Iceland under an American flag labeled “United States of America,” along with French, British, and Dutch territories.

Iceland formally protested: Foreign Minister Þorgerður Gunnarsdóttir summoned U.S. Ambassador Billy Long, telling him the depiction of a sovereign NATO ally under the U.S. flag was “completely inappropriate.” 

Denmark, which retains responsibility for Greenland’s foreign and security affairs, called it disturbing; Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, visiting Greenland’s capital, said Greenlanders “have said again and again that they do not want to be American.” 

France objected to its Caribbean territories and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon being claimed.

The map fits a pattern: Trump has pushed to acquire Greenland, suggested Canada become the 51st state, and — repeatedly confusing Iceland with Greenland — floated Arctic ambitions, alongside stunts renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” and the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” 

The timing was pointed, coming as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Greenland to announce a €200 million investment and deepen its ties to Europe. 

Borders, legal experts stress, are set by international law and the consent of populations, not presidential posts — but repeated assertions of expansion, European capitals fear, risk normalizing a vision of U.S. power that erodes the rules-based order Washington once championed.