{"id":2000125347,"date":"2026-09-08T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000125347"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:06:47","slug":"trump-shares-map-depicting-expanded-u-s-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-shares-map-depicting-expanded-u-s-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shares map depicting expanded U.S. territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The apparently AI-generated map, posted on his Truth Social platform, shows the American flag covering the United States along with Canada, Mexico, Cuba, as well as Greenland — a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark — and several other countries and territories in North America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump offered no caption or explanation for the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post followed a message on Sunday, in which Trump shared an image bearing the words “THE MOON IS OURS” alongside a U.S. flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another post on Sunday evening, the president labeled New Mexico, a mountain state in the U.S. Southwest, as “New America,” though a president lacks unilateral authority to rename a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump signed an executive order last month directing the Department of the Interior to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” amid heightened trade tensions with Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change does not alter Canada’s usage or constitute an internationally binding renaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2025, Trump signed a separate executive order directing the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” a move that remains unrecognized internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Airport, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Morristown, N.J. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday shared on social media a map appearing to depict Canada, Mexico, Cuba and other regional territories as part of an expanded United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000125348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000125347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000125348,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","alt":"","caption":"President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Morristown Airport, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Morristown, N.J. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1024,"height":682,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","width":1024,"height":682},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","width":1024,"height":682},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","width":1024,"height":682},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","width":1024,"height":682},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/283e73c7a10ae1949706f6a8afe.jpg","width":1024,"height":682}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000125347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000125352,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125347\/revisions\/2000125352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000125348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000125347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000125347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000125347"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000125347"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000125347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}