White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday forcefully maintained that President Donald Trump did not erroneously refer to Greenland as “Iceland” during his address at the World Economic Forum. Video footage of the gaffes suggests otherwise.
After NewsNation reporter Libby Dean posted on X that the president had mixed up the two nations “around three times” during his address in Davos, Switzerland, Leavitt clapped back in the president’s defense.
“His written remarks referred to Greenland as a ‘piece of ice’ because that’s what it is,” she said. “You’re the only one mixing anything up here.”
Social media users swiftly responded to Leavitt by sharing a 16-second clip that showed the president explicitly saying, “Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved
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