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Nuuk protest Greenlanders rally to tell Trump their homeland 'is not for sale'
The Guardian
|January 19, 2026
Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against Donald Trump on Saturday. They held protest signs, waved their national flag and chanted "Greenland is not for sale" in the face of increasing threats of a US takeover.
Just as they finished their trek from the small downtown area of Greenland's capital city, Nuuk, to the US consulate, the news broke that Trump had announced he would levy a 10% tariff on eight European countries from 1 February over their opposition to US taking control of Greenland.
"I thought this day couldn't get any worse, but it just did," Malik Dollerup-Scheibel said after hearing of Trump's announcement. "It just shows he has no remorse for any kind of human being now." Trump has long said he thought the US should own the strategically located and mineral-rich island, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.
Dollerup-Scheibel, a 21-year-old Greenlander, and Greenland's prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, were among what others described as the island's biggest protest, drawing nearly a quarter of Nuuk's population of about 20,000.
This story is from the January 19, 2026 edition of The Guardian.
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