Vice-president Vance and his wife USHA go to Greenland in the middle of the American controversy
Vice-president JD Vance and the second Lady Usha Vance go to Greenland on Friday morning for a visit to the Pituffik space base.
The couple went up on the Air Force two after 6 am and was joined during the trip by the national security advisor Mike Waltz, Energy Dry. Chris Wright and Senator Mike Lee. They should arrive around 11:45 a.m.
The trip was initially planned as a visit to the second lady to attend a race on the edge of dogs, but this plan was put back after strong criticism.
Vice-president Vance should pronounce comments and receive briefs at the Pituffik space base, according to a spokesperson.
The visit comes as President Trump has repeatedly suggested that the United States should take control of Greenland “in one way or another” for national security purposes and while continuing to underline the importance of Greenland as China and Russia accelerate activity in the Arctic.
Before Vance’s trip, Trump explained how he considered Greenland as a vital for American national security.
Vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance arrived in Paris on February 11, 2025.
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“We need Greenland for national security and international security. So I think, we will go as far as we have to go,” Trump told journalists on Wednesday. “We need Greenland. And the world needs that we have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark must have a Greenland. And, you know, we will see what is happening. But if we don’t have Greenland, we cannot have great international security,” said Trump.
The president made openings on the purchase of Greenland during his first mandate.
In a press release announcing the visit, Vance said: “During the decades which followed the negligence and inaction of Danish leaders and past American administrations presented to our opponents the possibility of advancing their own priorities in Greenland and the Arctic. President Trump is rightly evolving.”
Energy secretary, Chris Wright, who also makes the trip, told Fox News on Thursday that Greenland tried for years to interest the American mining companies to develop resources there because there is not enough infrastructure to make the mining economy.
“So, devil, maybe it will happen,” he said. “I think it is in the best interest of Greenland and the Greenlanders and they have expressed that for years. If the United States can have the right cooperation, I think that capital can flow there, which would bring jobs and economic opportunities to Greenland and minerals and critical resources in the United States-a victory for both parties.”
The idea that Greenland was part of the United States is opposed to many from Greenland and Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous territory.
Usha Vance was originally to make the trip to learn more about the cultural heritage of Greenland and attend a national race on the edge of dogs before it was announced that the vice-president, the national security advisor Mike Waltz and the energy secretary Chris Wright would join her. The trip was then reduced to the reduction of the base of the space base. The White House confirmed Thursday that Waltz would make the trip.
JD Vance and Waltz are at the center of the scandal on the alleged conversation discussed the attack on the Houthis rebels in Yemen on the signal application available in the trade which inadvertently included the Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, which reported the details of the conversation on Monday.
Greenland and Denmark officials postponed the visit.
The sun rises above the mountains, March 27, 2025 in Nuuk, Greenland.
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Reuters reported that Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulse has described Trump’s statements “climbing” in Trump’s rhetoric.
“These very powerful statements on a close ally are not suitable for the American president,” said Poulsen to journalists in Copenhagen on Thursday. “I need to clearly denounce what I consider an escalation on the American side,” he said.
On Wednesday, the Danish Prime Minister Put Frederiksen declared in an article on social networks that the United States would put “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland and Denmark before the unsolicited visit, adding that the two regions “will resist”.
The time of the visit was criticized in both Greenland and Denmark while Greenland is trying to constitute a coalition government after the parliamentary elections two weeks ago.
-Abc News’ Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.
