Trump Failed On Multiple Occasions To Get Greenland's Name Right During Toe-Curling Speech

Donald Trump has stunned his critics once again after repeatedly calling Greenland “Iceland” during a typically erratic and confusing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The president tried to justify his threats to take over the Arctic island by suggesting it was a “small ask” from Nato after all the US has done for the alliance.

He has been adamant the States needs to take control of the land for security reasons for weeks now, ever since he successfully seized Venezuela and captured its president Nicolas Maduro at the start of this year.

But Trump rather undermined his own argument today by repeatedly getting the name of the semi-autonomous Danish territory completely wrong.

At one point, he said: “I don’t know if they [Nato] would be there for us. They haven’t been there for us on Iceland.”

A moment later, he added: “Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. 

“So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money.”

In a different part of his very long speech, Trump said: “I’m helping Europe, I’m helping Nato – until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me.”

It’s unclear why Trump got the two, very different, islands muddled up, although he may have got confused after describing Greenland as a “big beautiful, piece of ice”.

The president made the same mistake on Tuesday while boasting about the success of his tariff scheme.

Speaking from the White House, he said: “As an example, Iceland, without tariffs, they wouldn’t even be talking to us about it.”

Trump and his MAGA supporters were especially critical of former US president Joe Biden when he experienced similar verbal slip-ups while in office, dubbing him “Sleepy Joe”.

Perhaps even more worryingly – especially considering the threats he has levelled at Greenland in recent weeks – the president did not even seem to notice his repeated mistake.

Social media sure did, though.

Account users on X dubbed it “reckless incompetence” and joked that Trump may now plan on invading both islands “just to not have to admit he misspoke.”