Andrew Harnik / Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland is doing damage control after an imperalist joke he made didn’t land. Former GOP Rep. Billy Long, who served the shortest-ever stint as IRS commissioner last summer before Trump nominated him for the ambassador position, is backpedaling after he joked on the House floor Tuesday night that Iceland would become the 52nd state and he would be its governor. “There was nothing serious about that,” Long told Alaska-based news site Arctic Today. Read more at The Daily Beast.