President Donald Trump’s World Economic Forum speech went off the rails when he appeared to mix up Greenland and Iceland, lamenting that “until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right, last time? Very smart man said, he’s our daddy. He’s running it. I was like running it.”
Trump was already provoking widespread fear and confusion for his demands to annex Greenland away from Denmark — but his inability to even tell apart Greenland and Iceland caused yet another round of mockery and confusion from commenters on social media.
“Ya know, Iceland is very green and Greenland is very icy. So I could see how the President could confuse the two,” wrote anti-Trump GOP pollster Sarah Longwell.
“Trump denigrates NATO and says we need Greenland (mistaking it for ‘Iceland’ multiple times),” wrote The Tennessee Holler. “Doing Putin’s bidding, while humiliating us on the world stage.”
“Iceland at the moment….as Trump repeatedly confuses them with Greenland,” wrote European Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Hugh Lovatt, posting a meme of Homer Simpson disappearing into the hedges.
“Trump just spent part of his Davos speech repeatedly calling Greenland ‘Iceland,’” wrote Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson. “Where’s @jaketapper and the rest of the media meltdown crew? Any time Biden misspoke, they treated it like a five-alarm crisis. Funny how that standard disappears when it’s Trump.”
“Trump has now said ‘Iceland’ multiple times when he means ‘Greenland,’” wrote Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic. “I wonder if the ministers of Poland are getting worried too. #Davos26”
“Seems like he’s confusing Greenland and Iceland again,” wrote former GOP strategist Tim Miller. “The good news is we can use the r-slur again. Because it might be the most apt way to describe the president’s Davos speech.”
“Trump just mixed up Iceland and Greenland in his Davos speech,” wrote journalist Brian Allen. “If Biden did that, Fox would be running a 72-hour ’25th Amendment’ marathon. But with Trump, it’s just another day of chaos they expect us to normalize.”
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