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Anger in Iceland over incoming US ambassador’s ‘52nd state’ joke

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Thousands sign petition calling on Iceland’s foreign minister to reject Trump ally Billy Long’s nomination

Thousands of people have signed a petition expressing anger after Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland reportedly joked that the Nordic country should become the 52nd US state.

On Wednesday, hours before top officials from Greenland and Denmark were to meet with the US in the hope of warding off Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island, the news outlet Politico said it had heard of musings regarding another Nordic island.

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