$BTR Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Iceland, former $RIVER Congressman Billy Long, has apologized for joking in $FHE Congress about Iceland becoming the 52nd U.S. state and him becoming governor.
Iceland’s Foreign Ministry has been seeking clarification from the U.S. Embassy and a petition in Iceland to stop him from becoming Ambassador received thousands of signatures
Long apologized during an interview for Arctic Today and said that it was a joke made with old friends in private on the Congress floor in jest amid ribbing about Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry potentially being "Governor of Greenland" in the context of Trump's Greenland acquisition comments.
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