Trump trolls world leaders once more by resharing map of ‘Stars and Stripes’ Greenland | EUROtoday

President Trump is as soon as once more trolling world leaders by resharing an AI-generated map that exhibits Greenland, Canada and Venezuela coated within the U.S. flag.

It was a part of a late-night posting spree that adopted his indignant ranting in opposition to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime present, and was reshared by the president with out remark.

The doctored picture, first posted in January, exhibits Trump within the Oval Office with numerous European leaders together with British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, French president Emmanuel Macron and president of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen.

In the background, to Trump’s left, is a map of the Americas that exhibits the president’s dream of an expanded American empire.

The provocative publish threatens to reignite a row over the way forward for Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory that’s a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

President Trump has insisted the massive island should develop into a part of the U.S. for safety causes, despite the fact that an current treaty with Denmark already permits the U.S. full navy entry to Greenland.

Fear has grown throughout Europe and the Americas that Trump will make good on his threats to forcibly take Greenland, in a transfer that will rupture the NATO navy alliance and pit the U.S. in opposition to its longest and strongest European allies.

Trump beforehand refused to rule out sending in armed forces, earlier than strolling again that suggestion on the Davos summit in Switzerland in January.

In one other AI-generated picture shared by Trump a couple of weeks in the past, he’s proven planting the American flag on Greenland alongside Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. An indication within the foreground reads: “GREENLAND – US TERRITORY EST. 2026”.

Trump isn’t the one U.S. determine who has shared footage of Greenland with the Stars and Stripes of late. Earlier in January, Katie Miller, conservative podcast host and spouse of White House advisor Stephen Miller, shared an image of the territory with an American flag on it, with the caption: “SOON.”

The president’s resharing of the controversial picture additionally threatened to additional increase tensions between the U.S. and Canada, which have been excessive in latest months.

Just a few weeks in the past Trump threatened to impose a one hundred pc tariff on items imported from Canada if the nation went forward with a commerce take care of Beijing, and he has repeatedly trolled his northern neighbors by suggesting they develop into the 51st state of the United States.

It additionally emerged lately that Trump administration officers have reportedly held a number of secret conferences with far-right Canadian separatists who need to break away from the remainder of the nation.

Trump’s push to amass Greenland has alarmed Canada, which shares a 1,864-mile maritime border with the territory.