Trump posts map showing Canada and Greenland under U.S. control

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In this doctored image shared to social media by U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada, Venezuela and Greenland are shown covered by the American flag on a map of the Western Hemisphere shown in the Oval Office where the president was meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Donald Trump has been blunt about his desire to acquire and control Greenland, but it seems Canada is still on the U.S. president’s wish list.

In a post to Truth Social on Monday night, ahead of his departure for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the simmering territorial dispute will be a topic of discussion, Trump shared a doctored image showing a Western Hemisphere in which Canada — along with Greenland and Venezuela — is covered by the American flag.

The map is displayed on an easel in the Oval Office to the left of the Resolute Desk Trump is sitting behind as he speaks to a group of European leaders — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The original image , shared by the White House last August, featured a map of Ukraine and was taken during the leaders’ meeting with Trump following his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the more than three-year-old Eastern European conflict.

Minutes later, Trump shared a fake image of himself holding the American flag on a tundra- and glacier-strewn landscape next to a sign saying “Greenland. US Territory, Est 2026”. Flanking him are Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Trump’s post came amidst a series of trolling attacks on some of the aforementioned leaders.

Just before the uncaptioned map post, he shared an apparent private text message from Macron in which the French head of state questioned Trump’s Greenland tactics and offered to set up an informal G7 meeting on the WEF sidelines.

Macron turned down an invitation to sit on the U.S. President’s new “Board of Peace,” an organization originally envisioned to bring stability to Gaza that has since morphed into a global entity with a charter that gives Trump significant power and requires a $1 billion buy-in for permanent membership.

“Nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon,” Trump told reporters before leaving for Davos from Florida on Monday night, per AFP . He also threatened 200 percent tariffs on French wine and champagne.

Tuesday morning in Davos, Macron said using tariffs as leverage in a dispute of sovereignty is “fundamentally unacceptable” and stood up to the latest threats.

“We do prefer respect to bullies,” the French president said, as reported by AFP . “And we do prefer rule of law to bullying.”

A short while after his shots at Macron, Trump took aim at the U.K. , which he accused of surrendering the Chagos Islands, a British island territory in the Indian Ocean and site of a joint U.K.-U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, to Mauritius “for no reason whatsoever.” Last May, Starmer signed a deal to see the sovereignty of the archipelago returned to its 18th century pre-colonial owners, but allowing the joint base to remain for 99 years.

“The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired,” Trump wrote, urging European countries to “DO THE RIGHT THING.”

Trump capped off his flurry of late-night posts aboard Air Force One on a friendlier note, thanking NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for his kind words in a text message the president screenshotted and shared for all.

“Mr. President, dear Donald – what you have accomplished in Syria today is incredible,” he said, referring to the U.S. role in a ceasefire between the Middle Eastern nation and a Kurdish-led militia.

He promised to talk about Trump’s peace efforts and said he is “committed to finding a way forward on Greenland.

“Can’t wait to see you. Yours, Mark,” he wrote in the apparent private message.

Earlier Monday, Trump posted about a phone call with Rutte, who referred to the U.S. President as “Daddy” at a NATO summit last year.

While he agreed to meet about Greenland while in Davos, he said “there can be no going back” and said the U.S. is “the only POWER that can ensure PEACE throughout the World.”

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