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JD Vance to Lead High-Powered U.S. Visit to Greenland
Amid President Trump’s push to take over the world’s largest island, the administration says it is sending the vice president to visit a military base there.
The Trump administration seems like it just doubled down on Greenland.
Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that he was headed to the island later this week, taking over a controversial visit that officials in Greenland have made very clear they don’t want at all.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration said that Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, were traveling to Greenland to promote ties with the semiautonomous territory of Denmark that President Trump wants for the United States.
Officials from Denmark and Greenland immediately branded the trip as “aggressive” and part of the president’s plan to get the island, as he recently put it, “one way or the other.”
The White House issued a statement on Tuesday afternoon changing the plan. And in a post on X, Mr. Vance said that he would “just check out what’s going on with the security there of Greenland.”
He accused Denmark of ignoring the island, which, he said, was “bad for the security of the entire world.”
“We think we can take things in a different direction,” he added, “so I’m going to go check it out.”
