US President Donald Trump and Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, during a Rose Garden dinner at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. The US is expected to delay the announcement of new tariffs over allegations of trading partners' excess manufacturing capacity at least until after next week's planned summit between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump is facing criticism on social media after a brazen post in which he claimed control over an entire hemisphere of the planet.
Trump posted an image of himself peeking out over a globe with the words “His Hemisphere” above:
Donald Trump on Truth SocialThe image shows Greenland prominent in the foreground, and comes just days after the United States made a deal with Denmark expanding the US military presence there.
Trump has spent years obsessing over Greenland, saying he wanted to make it a US state ― an idea that goes all the way to his previous term in office.
Greenland officials have made it clear that the island is not for sale and that they don’t want to be part of the United States, and a pro-Trump candidate in last year’s election there flopped in the polls.
The new deal seems to satisfy Trump’s desire for a greater US presence there while allowing the territory to maintain its current status as a semiautonomous region of Denmark.
What the deal does not do, however, is turn either hemisphere of the globe into Trump’s personal territory ― and critics were quick to point that out on X:
We’re being run by an unhinged, corrupt egomaniac who thinks he’s a king and has no use for the constitution.
And most of the media still just covers it like it’s normal. pic.twitter.com/kWfn6eSgXY
Nothing to see here except for Donald Trump claiming the entire Western Hemisphere belongs to him.
Doesn’t sound Hitleresque at all. pic.twitter.com/iRYwjQMQbo
Too bad his brain hemisphere is not quite up to par
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) September 20, 2026Indeed, this is sick behavior.👇 https://t.co/fEHhp58gdU
— Kristen McKnight (@kristenmcknight) September 21, 2026For all the people who still insist that this is a man who will willfully leave the White House when his term ends…good luck with that. This man isn’t trolling - he’s out of control. https://t.co/5fH1bkbx2H
— USED TO BE G.O.P. (@Used_To_Be_GOP) September 21, 2026Two and a half more years of this madness pic.twitter.com/EtZJVnOowt
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 20, 2026Trump’s front hemisphere seems to be faulty. pic.twitter.com/mYFK0ewh5c
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) September 21, 202625th Amendment Now https://t.co/jzRNPIl1BW
— Tony (@LightningFan083) September 21, 2026Fucking Psycho Clown. pic.twitter.com/paWjisINUo
— Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 (@marlene4719) September 20, 2026People can ignore this if they choose, but these are the statements that a dictator would make. https://t.co/SV39Fn1tjY
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