{"id":130423,"date":"2026-07-16T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/130423\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:52:15","slug":"trump-criticised-as-he-reignites-talk-of-us-annexing-canada-and-greenland-with-edited-photo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/130423\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticised as he reignites talk of US annexing Canada and Greenland with edited photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the ongoing controversies surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/iran-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Iran war<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/reflecting-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Reflecting Pool<\/a> weren\u2019t enough for US president <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> at the moment, the 80-year-old has reignited criticism of his desire to have <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canada<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greenland<\/a> become part of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>On his own <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/truth-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Truth Social<\/a> platform on Tuesday, the convicted felon shared an edited image of himself presenting a map to European leaders, showing the US flag emblazoned over Canada, Greenland and <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the room in the edited photo include Ukrainian president <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/volodymyr-zelensky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, outgoing UK prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>, French president <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/emmanuel-macron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a>, Italian prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/giorgia-meloni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giorgia Meloni<\/a> and European Commission president <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/ursula-von-der-leyen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ursula von der Leyen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s return to this particular talking point has sparked fresh condemnation online.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, an account named Canada Hates Trump issued an expletive-laden response in which they wrote: \u201cCanada will never be your 51st state. You can\u2019t even unite your own f***ing country, yet somehow you think you\u2019re going to annex ours with a poster board?\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotally normal,\u201d Republicans Against Trump tweeted sarcastically:<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Ashley Duffany commented: \u201cWhat the actual hellyyyyyy\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>And motivational speaker Guy Felicella said: \u201cAs a Canadian, don\u2019t ask me why so many of us can\u2019t stand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>. Just look at this\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>The latest intervention from Trump comes just weeks after a poll conducted by Public First found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/canada-patriotism-trump-tariffs-51st-state-b3007096.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">52 per cent of Canadians said they were very proud of their nationality<\/a> \u2013 compared to just 34 per cent in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Why not read\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/newsletters?itm_channel=native&amp;itm_campaign=footer&amp;itm_audience=prospecting&amp;itm_content=newsletters\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up<\/a> to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/indy100-news-updates-whatsapp-channel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to join<\/a> the indy100&#8217;s free WhatsApp channel<\/p>\n<p>Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As if the ongoing controversies surrounding the Iran war and the Reflecting Pool weren\u2019t enough for US president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[227,184,57,38,75,4247],"class_list":["post-130423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-news","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116929517889467738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}