Greenlanders are not 'experimental subjects', says minister as she decries US doctor's visit

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Greenlanders are not ‘experimental subjects’, says minister as she decries US doctor’s visit

Health minister in Nuuk condemns doctor’s presence in US delegation as ‘deeply problematic’

Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Mon 18 May 2026 13.06 EDT
Last modified on Mon 18 May 2026 13.41 EDT

Greenland’s government has criticised the arrival of a US doctor in Nuuk alongside Donald Trump’s special envoy, Jeff Landry, saying that Greenlanders are not “experimental subjects”.

Joseph Griffin said he had joined the delegation as a volunteer to “assess the medical needs” of the Arctic island, which the US president has repeatedly threatened to invade.

Greenland’s health minister, Anna Wangenheim, immediately condemned his presence, describing it as “deeply problematic”.

“The health sector in Greenland has historically been the subject of geopolitical interest,” she said in a statement hinting at deep sensitivities in the now largely autonomous territory, which as a Danish colony experienced repeated health-related abuses of Indigenous Greenlandic people.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/greenland-us-doctor-visit-trump-envoy-deeply-problematic

[tanyev]

1. OMG, people who don't give a flying f**k about the medical needs of the country

they’re supposed to be governing have no business pretending they are concerned about another country’s medical needs.

[Sweet Rosie Red]

2. Dear Greenlanders,

Please accept our deepest apologies for the depredations the Village Idiot and cabal in DC have inflicted on you. Please be assured that most of us have the deepest respect for your people and culture and have no wish to control your territory, economy or natural resources. We support your right to independence and will do anything possible to discourage any actions the Village Idiot undertakes to compromise that. He doesn’t listen, but we’ll keep yelling at him.

Sincerely, the Sane Patriots of the USA

[msongs]

3. dear greenland, tell the bully the doctor will be refused entry. that's how to deal with a bully nt