It’s a moment Donald Trump had long dreamed of – people in Denmark and Greenland wearing bright red slogan hats.
But the US president’s ‘Make America Great Again’ motto isn’t printed on them with pride. Instead, they read: ‘Make America Go Away.’
On the front, the spoof MAGA hats say, ‘Nu det NUUK’, Danish for ‘Enough is enough’ and a pun of Greenland’s capital Nuuk.
One in 10 Greenlanders protested against the White House’s aggressive attempt to seize their island home on Sunday.
The day before, Trump amped up his campaign by threatening tariffs on allies of NATO – a defence alliance the US, Greenland and Denmark are members.
On the news, Malik Dollerup-Scheibel, 21, said: ‘I thought this day couldn’t get any worse, but it just did.
‘It just shows he has no remorse for any kind of human being now.’
At least 10,000 Danes also gathered in Copenhagen, chanting ‘Greenland is not for sale’ and holding ‘Hands off Greenland’ placards.
Among the protesters was Flemming Almind, who told NBC News: ‘I’ve actually never done this before, demonstrating, but this is very important to me.’
Protester Susanne Kristensen said Denmark must support the island nation.
‘We are Danes, Greenland are Danes, even though they’re Greenlanders, and we just have to stick together,’ she added.
Trump has for years set his sights on the independently run Danish territory, in what he says is in the name of national security.
Greenlandic artist Aannguaq Reimer-Johansen designed the anti-MAGA hats earlier this year.
He asked his American followers to ‘help’ his country in a Facebook post this month, writing: ‘Greenland is not land to be bought. We, the people, are not something to purchase.
‘Not territory to be taken. Not something to be decided over our heads. It is home.’
Greenland is home to 56,000 people, mostly the Inuit people who learnt to survive on the slab of ice poking into the Arctic Circle centuries ago.
Reimer-Johansen said his people do not wish to become part of the US, something that even 74% of Americans do not support, CNN found.
He added: ‘We are people. Not property.’
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