Hundreds protest Trump's NATO comments and Greenland demands at US embassy in Copenhagen

Hundreds of Danish protesters, galore of whom are subject veterans who fought successful Iraq and Afghanistan, staged a objection successful Copenhagen connected Saturday extracurricular the U.S. Embassy.

The radical was protesting President Donald Trump’s propulsion that the U.S. get Greenland from Denmark and his remarks astatine Davos that NATO forces "stayed a small back" erstwhile they fought alongside the U.S. successful Iraq and Afghanistan.

"They person a feeling that they’ve been betrayed," Carsten Rasmussen, president of the Danish Veterans Association, told The Associated Press. "And of course, they are angered by this. They deployed. They fought with the Americans. They fought with the Brits. They fought together. They bled together. And arsenic you person heard present successful beforehand of the American embassy today, 52 of them ne'er returned."

Forty-four Danish soldiers died successful Afghanistan, the highest per capita decease toll for a NATO state successful the war, and 8 much died successful Iraq. The colonisation of Denmark arsenic of 2025 was conscionable implicit 6 million. 

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Protesters astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Copenhagen connected Saturday.  (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

During the protest, demonstrators laid 52 flags with the names of the fallen extracurricular the embassy.

"Behind each these flags, there's a guy, there's a soldier, there's a young man," Lt. Col. Niels Christian Koefoed, a Dane who served successful Afghanistan, told Reuters.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Trump’s remarks astir staying a "little back" ""insulting and frankly appalling," to which Trump wrote connected Truth Social: "The GREAT and precise BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom volition ever beryllium with the United States of America!"

He didn’t, however, admit the sacrifices of different NATO troops.

"Denmark has ever stood broadside by broadside with the USA — and we person showed up successful the world’s situation zones erstwhile the USA has asked america to," Danish Veterans & Veteran Support, the radical that organized the protest, said successful a statement. "We consciousness fto down and ridiculed by the Trump Administration, which is deliberately disregarding Denmark’s combat broadside by broadside with the USA."

Hundreds of Danish veterans and different demonstrators protested extracurricular the U.S. Embassy successful Copenhagen, Saturday.  (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

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The radical added that "Words cannot picture however overmuch it hurts america that Denmark’s contributions and sacrifices successful the combat for democracy, bid and state are being forgotten successful the White House."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House for comment.

On Greenland earlier this month, U.S. ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker told Fox News Digital that NATO has a "tendency to overreact."

Whitaker said Greenland’s value has been wide for years arsenic the crystal melts, it reshapes the Arctic and opens caller routes. "The information of the precocious north, which I’ve talked astir a batch earlier this ever happened, is the astir important issue," helium said. "As the crystal thaws and arsenic routes unfastened up successful the Arctic, Arctic security, and truthful the security of Greenland, which is the bluish flank of the continental United States, is crucial."

The protesters felt "insulted" by President Donald Trump's remark that NATO troops stayed "a small back" successful Afghanistan and Iraq.  (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

He stressed that Greenland’s determination makes it cardinal to U.S. defence planning. "If you deliberation astir Greenland arsenic portion of the entree to the naval assets, that monitoring and consciousness and fortification of that portion of the Western Hemisphere is important for the semipermanent information of the United States," Whitaker said.

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He said caller diplomacy shows the contented tin beryllium addressed without escalation. "I cognize that a very successful gathering happened between the Danes and Greenland and Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Rubio, truthful I deliberation it’s going to beryllium constructive."