Marco Rubio probably thought he was helping when he excused Trump’s infamous Iceland stumble by putting Biden on the spotlight. Instead, he quietly revealed that Karoline Leavitt had been selling fiction.
During his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 21, 2026, Trump repeatedly referred to Iceland while clearly discussing Greenland. The mix-up wasn’t subtle. He accidentally threatened tariffs and floated the territorial acquisition of the Nordic nation. Reportedly, he said “Iceland” at least four times, in contexts that made no geographic sense (via Snopes).
