7 Dec 2017Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs is worried about US President Donald Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. He finds the decision worrying and disappointing.
1 Jun 2017Director of the Icelandic Nature Conservation association, Árni Finnsson says that the decision announced by US President Donald Trump today is a great threat to Iceland. "The acidification of our oceans is very rapid and our fish is danger. I imagine that people within the fishing industry here will react very strongly."
21 Feb 2017A school teacher from Wales, Juhel Miah was escorted off a plane at Keflavik international airport last week despite the supension of Trump's travel ban. In an interview with The Guardian, Miah says he was made to feel like a criminal.
9 Feb 2017Icelandic website Nútíminn has made a hilarous video promoting Iceland to Donald Trump.
In the video, Iceland asks to be in second place to the USA in first place.
1 Feb 2017Meisam Rafiei, member of the Icelandic tae kwon do team who was escorted off a plane because of his Iranian background has now received permission from the United States to travel there. Rafiei has an Icelandic passport.
31 Jan 2017A member of the Icelandic national tae kwon do team was unable to fly to the US for a championship because of Trump's travel ban and executive order on immigration. Meisam Rafiei is an Icelandic citizen but was born in Iran.
24 Jan 2017President Donald J. Trump is the direct descendant of Hakon V King of Norway according to Icelandic genealogist Oddur F. Helgason. Mr. Trump is also related to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Icelandic President Guðni Th. Johannesson of Iceland, and in fact almost all Icelanders.
