{"id":547844,"date":"2026-01-20T00:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:52:19","slug":"heckler-at-nba-game-in-london-gets-huge-cheers-with-blunt-3-word-message-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547844\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckler At NBA Game In London Gets Huge Cheers With Blunt 3-Word Message For Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heckler at an NBA game in London won cheers on Sunday for his pointed message to the United States and especially its leader, President Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cLeave Greenland<\/a> alone!\u201d someone yelled as Vanessa Williams<\/a> sang \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d before the game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic. The shout was a reference to Trump\u2019s threats to take the island \u2015 currently a semi-autonomous Danish territory \u2015 and make it part of the U.S.<\/p>\n

Trump has not ruled out<\/a> the use of force. <\/p>\n

The audience erupted in cheers following the shout, which came just after the line \u201d…that our flag was still there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story continues below image.<\/p>\n

\"VanessaVanessa Williams sings the U.S. national anthem before the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic game at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday.<\/p>\n

GLYN KIRK via Getty Images<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Trump slapped new tariffs<\/a> on eight European nations until, as he wrote on Truth Social<\/a>, \u201csuch time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.\u201d <\/p>\n

Also over the weekend, thousands took to the streets<\/a> in Denmark and Greenland to protest Trump\u2019s push<\/a> to take the island. <\/p>\n

While Trump may be obsessed, the American public is not. A CNN poll released last week<\/a> found 75% of Americans oppose taking control of Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heckler at an NBA game in London won cheers on Sunday for his pointed message to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,2322,74902,48,6,47,76,3883,74873],"class_list":{"0":"post-547844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-greenland","11":"tag-magic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlandomagic","16":"tag-vanessa-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115924693541888935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547844","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=547844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}