Karoline Leavitt is denying that Trump mixed up Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his speech today.

[demmiblue]

Karoline Leavitt is denying that Trump mixed up Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his speech today.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T17:44:33.637Z

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-21T14:20:29.058Z

[Maru Kitteh]

1. "I'm not stupid - YOU'RE stupid "

What an embarrassment

[Doodley]

2. It's all the same to Trump. Greenland is Iceland. Norway is the capital of Denmark. He couldn't find these places on

a map.

[Grim Chieftain]

3. Pathetic

Have you no shame? No sense of decency? No integrity? Has this orange imbecile robbed you of every modicum of civility?

To which she replies, "Why yes, yes he has!"

[Hugin]

4. Even Leavitt's denial is wrong.

Greenland is widely acknowledged as not being merely “a piece of ice”.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. She's spinning like a top so furiously that her kid, Usha's kid, and Katie's kid are going to be born dizzy.

[kerouac2]

6. Trump will now literally say he wants iceland

And meant to say that. So here ya go, mr double down will plan to take iceland.

[Celerity]

13. Maybe he means the British supermarket, lololol

[MineralMan]

7. And Trump Thinks Greenland Is Much Larger That It Actually Is.

I guarantee it. He sees it in the Mercator projection, and that's the map he's used to. If he saw it on a good globe map, he'd be shocked at how small it actually is, compared to its perceived size in the Mercator projection.

Someone should show that to him. They really should. He'll be less interested in it, I'm sure. He likes BIG things. They help make up for his, shall we say, shortcomings.

[Cirsium]

10. Here we go

[pandr32]

8. She is trying to do magic without a wand.

She can "abra-ca-dabra" all she wants, but she doesn't change what we see and hear.

[MiHale]

9. She has to have some serious burns under that crucifix...

Maybe they should teach the 10 commandments in school…this administration breaks most of ‘em. Teach the kids what to look out for.

[keep_left]

14. LOL, it does appear that Leavitt's wearing a crucifix, after a year...

...or so of wearing an unadorned Protestant-style cross; I call it the "conspicuous cross", as it's completely oversized when compared to former press secretary McEnany's much more understated cross. (Leavitt's also appears to be covered in diamonds). I've wondered for some time if Leavitt got any backtalk from the radtrad "worship police" at EWTN for wearing a Protestant-style cross despite her Catholic bona fides.

On various occasions, Leavitt's "conspicuous cross" would become even more conspicuous by its absence.

Sometimes Leavitt's cross goes missing for days, which makes its absence even more obvious, since the one she usually wears appears to be several times larger than McEnany's. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason...My hope is that it's the result of a guilty conscience...

...It was a real LOL moment for me when she came out for her first press conference wearing that cross, because it was a little too big and obvious. It was like she was trying to outdo her predecessor (Kayleigh McEnemy...er...McEnany), who wore an understated and much smaller cross.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220367141#post36

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. There is difference between Greenland and Iceland.

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. MaddowBlog-White House insists Trump didn't say what everyone heard him say about Iceland

So many Republicans see the president as infallible that even inconsequential slip-ups must be denied in Orwellian fashion.

There’s a straight line from "Sharpiegate" to Karoline Leavitt denying that Trump accidentally referenced Iceland when he meant Greenland.

We’re apparently supposed to see Trump as infallible, so even minor and inconsequential slip-ups must be denied in Orwellian fashion. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-22T14:59:44.118Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-insists-trump-didnt-say-what-everyone-heard-him-say-about-iceland

Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was an embarrassing mess. The American president peddled a series of absurd falsehoods, he needlessly targeted U.S. allies with baseless whining, and he reminded much of the Western world over the course of an hour and a half why the Trump-led United States has seen its international standing collapse.

But one part of the Republican’s weird, meandering remarks generated attention for an unexpected reason.

Trump: “I'm helping Europe. I'm helping NATO, and until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy…. But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection"

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-21T16:07:38.233Z

.....It would have been easy for the White House simply to acknowledge that the president had misspoken. Since everyone misspeaks from time to time, this likely would have generated very little attention.

But that’s not what happened. The New York Times reported:

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, denied that Mr. Trump had misspoken, responding in a social media post to a reporter who wrote that he had appeared to mix the countries up multiple times.

‘No he didn’t,’ she wrote to the reporter. ‘His written remarks referred to Greenland as a ‘piece of ice’ because that’s what it is. You’re the only one mixing anything up here.’

In other words, Leavitt would have us believe that when Trump said “Iceland” four times, he was really commenting on “ice land.” As in a land of ice.

In context, that is obviously preposterous. The Orwellian pushback, however, was oddly familiar.....

When news outlets noted the president’s error, Trump took great offense, insisting he was right, despite the obvious fact that he was mistaken. It set in motion a series of increasingly ridiculous events, culminating in Trump displaying a map to which he literally took a pen, drawing a bump onto the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast so he could make the scientific prediction conform retroactively to his mistake. (The mess became known as “Sharpiegate.”)

Leavitt’s line on the president’s “Iceland” reference is a page from the same book. Since Trump’s loyalists insist he is incapable of being wrong, even minor, inconsequential slip-ups have to be rejected and denied.

The tactics make the White House and its allies look worse. By all appearances, they don’t care.