Donald Trump shares altered image of map showing Greenland, Canada, Venezuela as U.S. territories

U.S. President Donald Trump connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) shared an altered representation of a representation showing Canada, Greenland and Venezuela arsenic U.S. territories.

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In the representation shared by Mr. Trump connected Truth Social, Mr. Trump’s ain online platform, Mr. Trump was seen showing the altered representation to European leaders. The representation appears to beryllium an altered mentation of an existent photograph of the U.S. President discussing the Ukraine warfare concern with European leaders successful August 2025.

Mr. Trump met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Finland President Alexander Stubb and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen successful August 2025, astatine the White House to sermon the warfare successful Ukraine.

In the archetypal representation a representation of Ukraine could beryllium spotted successful the gathering room. However, successful the altered image, the Ukrainian representation was replaced with a representation of North America that showed Canada, Greenland and Venezuela arsenic U.S. territories.

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Notably, successful different follow-up post, Mr. Trump shared different artificial representation of him planting the U.S. emblem successful Greenland, on with U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The station comes amid heightened unease betwixt the U.S. and its European allies, implicit Mr. Trump’s insistence that the U.S. power Greenland, citing information concerns from Russia and China. While The European nations person tried to propulsion Mr. Trump’s thought back, inviting a 10% authorisation from the U.S. medication implicit the contented and the menace of that being risen to 25% aboriginal this year.

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Recently, U.S. had sent its troops into Venezuela and captured its past President Nicolas Maduro and kidnapped him to the U.S., wherever helium is lasting proceedings for cause charges.