BILLY LONG -- former Missouri Congress Repr. confirmed by OMNIBUS Senate vote (5/18/2026) as ICELAND ambassador had joked "ICELAND will be 52nd state in USA"

UPDATE
in

OMNIBUS VOTE

he was voted by the GOP - MAGA consensus

as the Best Diplomat / official

to serve as

ICELAND Ambassador from the Executive Branch

(Trump -Vance - Rubio - Hegseth) 

The HILL covers this verbal gaffe told in

SENATE hearing over his receiving an

approval to serve as a formal Ambassador to

the Arctic / European nation:

thehill.com/homenews/administration/

56920007-billy-long-apologizes-iceland-joke/