Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against U.S. President Donald Trump.
Thousands march in Greenland to support Arctic island in the face of Trump’s threats to take it over
NUUK, Greenland — Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. They held signs of protest, waved their national flag and chanted «Greenland is not for sale» in support of their own self-governance in the face of increasing threats of an American takeover.
Just as they finished their trek from the small downtown of Greenland’s capital city Nuuk to the U.S. Consulate in rain and near-freezing temperatures, the news broke: Trump, from his golf course in sunny Florida, announced he will charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European countries over their opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.
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«I thought this day couldn’t get any worse but it just did», a stunned Malik Dollerup-Scheibel said after The Associated Press told him about Trump’s announcement. «It just shows he has no remorse for any kind of human being now.»
Trump has long said he thinks the U.S. should own the strategically located and mineral-rich island, which is a self-governing territory of Greenland. Trump intensified his calls a day after the military operation to oust Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
