{"id":546487,"date":"2026-01-19T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:13:22","slug":"u-s-national-anthem-interrupted-by-leave-greenland-alone-shout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546487\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. National Anthem Interrupted By \u201cLeave Greenland Alone\u201d Shout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA member of the crowd at the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic NBA game in London heckled Vanessa Williams as she performed the Star-Spangled Banner, shouting, \u201cLeave <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/greenland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_greenland\" data-tag=\"greenland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenland<\/a> alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA video of the interruption was widely circulated on social media sites on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: During the U.S. national anthem before an NBA game in London, a person in the crowd yelled, \u201cLeave Greenland alone!\u201d and the entire crowd erupted. Donald Trump has destroyed our standing on the world stage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8vgS7BdX3m\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8vgS7BdX3m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemocraticWins\/status\/2013006869967569029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPresident Trump\u2019s renewed interest in acquiring Greenland hit a new point last week as he threatened a 25% tariff on multiple European countries, including the United Kingdom, if the U.S. isn\u2019t allowed to purchase Greenland. Trump said in a Truth Social post this week that the tariff would begin on February 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,\u201d Trump posted. \u201cThe United States has been trying to do this transaction for over 150 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pushed back, posting a statement about Greenland X this weekend on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOur position on Greenland is very clear \u2013 it is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and its future is a matter for the Greenlanders and the Danes,\u201d Starmer posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe have also made clear that Arctic Security matters for the whole of NATO and allies should all do more together to address the threat from Russia across different parts of the Arctic. Applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is completely wrong. We will of course be pursuing this directly with the US administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the crowd at the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic NBA game in London heckled Vanessa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,74902,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-546487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-greenland","10":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115921237042581261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}