{"id":197345,"date":"2026-01-18T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/massive-protests-in-denmark-to-tell-us-to-keep-hands-off-greenland-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:38:50","slug":"massive-protests-in-denmark-to-tell-us-to-keep-hands-off-greenland-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/massive-protests-in-denmark-to-tell-us-to-keep-hands-off-greenland-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive protests in Denmark to tell US to keep 'Hands off Greenland' – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of protesters gathered across Denmark Jan. 17 to oppose President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>‘s<\/a>\u00a0threat to\u00a0take control of Greenland<\/a> and to support residents of the Arctic island\u2019s right to self-determination.
Trump has claimed the U.S. needs Greenland<\/a> because its strategic location<\/a>\u00a0and vast stores of minerals<\/a>\u00a0make it strategically important, and he has refused to rule out taking it by force. That has prompted some European nations<\/a> \u2212 including France, Germany, the UK, Norway and Sweden \u2212 to deploy military forces<\/a> to the frozen island as a show of support for Denmark.
Some protesters chanted “Greenland is not for sale” and held banners and signs saying “Hands off Greenland” alongside Greenland’s red and white flag, Reuters reported. Demonstrators were seen wearing red “Make America Go Away” hats, modeled on Trump’s own “Make America Great Again” campaign merchandise. After assembling in Copenhagen’s City Hall Square, the crowd marched towards the U.S. embassy.
Trump’s insistence on acquiring Greenland \u2013 which\u00a0recently has included threats<\/a>\u00a0to “do something” about the island, “whether they like it or not” \u2013 has rattled the global community, threatening to upend one of the U.S.’s most important alliances, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.\u00a0
“I am very grateful for the huge support we as Greenlanders receive … we are also sending a message to the world that you all must wake up,” said Julie Rademacher, chair of Uagut, an organization for Greenlanders in Denmark.
“I am very grateful for the huge support we as Greenlanders receive … we are also sending a message to the world that you all must wake up,” said Julie Rademacher, chair of Uagut, an organization for Greenlanders in Denmark.
“Greenland and the Greenlanders have involuntarily become the front in the fight for democracy and human rights,” she added.
Meanwhile, as European\u00a0troops gather in Greenland<\/a>, a bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers traveled to Copenhagen<\/a> on Jan. 16 to reassure Danish leaders amid fears the U.S. could\u00a0annex the resource-rich island<\/a>. The group met with the prime ministers and members of parliament of both Denmark and Greenland, which is part of the European nation.
Sens. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, emerged from the conversations saying the delegations had a “good dialogue,” and their hope was to tone down political rhetoric about the situation.
Trump has threatened to\u00a0use tariffs to force other countries to go along with his plans<\/a>, on Jan. 16, calling himself the “Tariff King.”
Contributing: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thousands of protesters gathered across Denmark Jan. 17 to oppose President\u00a0Donald Trump‘s\u00a0threat to\u00a0take control of Greenland and to support residents of the Arctic island\u2019s right to self-determination.Trump has claimed the U.S. needs Greenland because its strategic location\u00a0and vast stores of minerals\u00a0make it strategically important, and he has refused to rule out taking it by force. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}