Washington, Jan. 28 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified that President Donald Trump had misspoken when he repeatedly referred to Greenland as Iceland during remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month, contradicting an earlier explanation from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Rubio made the comment while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing focused on the Trump administration's operations in Venezuela, signalling that the president's geographical error was unintentional.

"He meant to say Greenland," Rubio told lawmakers, framing the mix-up as an understandable mistake.

"But I think we're all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles. We've h...