At least four times, President Donald Trump referred to Greenland — the semiautonomous Danish territory that he wants to bring under United States control — as the completely separate nation of Iceland during a rambling speech he delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The first apparent mix-up came around 40 minutes into his remarks.
“Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me,” Trump said, referring to his fellow NATO members. “Now what I’m asking for is a piece of ice. Cold, poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It’s a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.”
Trump referred to Greenland similarly other times in his speech, once calling the island nation “a large piece of ice in the middle of the ocean.”
At another point, he said, “We want a piece of ice for world protection and they won’t give it.”
