Trump’s Iceland ambassador nominee apologizes for 52nd state ‘joking’

Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), President Trump’s prime to beryllium the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, connected Thursday apologized for joking astir Iceland becoming the 52nd authorities with himself arsenic governor. “There was thing superior astir that, I was with immoderate people, who I hadn’t met for 3 years, and they were kidding astir Jeff Landry…