President Donald Trump briefly said that he wanted to acquire Iceland instead of Greenland during a confusing moment at the World Economic Forum.
While speaking in Davos on Wednesday, Trump insisted that "all the U.S. is asking is for a place called Greenland."
"We've never asked for anything," the president said. "It's always a one-way street. Now they want us to help them with Ukraine."
"But in doing it, I'm helping Europe, I'm helping NATO," he continued. "And until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right, last time? Very smart man said, he's our daddy. He's running it. I was like running it."
"I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located."
Trump argued that the land he was asking for was "a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades."
"But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%," he remarked. "They're not there for us on Iceland. That I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money."