President Donald Trump's recent social media map-making posts have stirred tension in the North AtlanticLONDON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's latest map-making exercise has rattled the North Atlantic.During a flurry of social media posts over the long holiday weekend, Trump posted a map showing the U.S. sprawling across all of North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland. The map was colored in the red, white and blue stars and stripes of the U.S. flag.The Truth Social post offered no explanation but recalled Trump’s earlier talk of making Canada the 51st state and his repeated musings about taking over Greenland, Denmark’s self-governing territory.“It’s disturbing and, in many ways, completely inappropriate,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Tuesday. “It’s obviously a sign that the U.S. president still harbors some kind of maximalist vision in his own mind. We need to rein that in.” Iceland’s Foreign and Defense Secretary Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir summoned U.S. Ambassador Billy Long to a meeting, national broadcaster RÚV said.The Arctic states have been on edge since Trump ramped up his rhetoric at the start of the ye...

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