JD Vance will visit on Friday with his wife Usha with his wife Usha – making him the highest American official who visit the territory in the midst of a growing words after threats by Donald Trump to take over the island.
Prior to the visit, the vice-president suggested that the self-managing did not receive Danish territory enough defense support from Copenhagen, with the argument that global safety is at stake.
“Speaking for President Trump, we want to breathe new life into the safety of the people of Greenland because we think it is important to protect the safety of the whole world,” he said in an online video.
In a clear jibe after a comment he made about Europe 'Free Loading' of the US for his defense, Vance added on Monday, added: 'Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, Groenland ignored far too long.
'That has been bad for Greenland, it has also been bad for the safety of the whole world. We think we can take things in a different direction, so I'm going to see it. '
President Trump has a large part of Europe Irkeld with claims that the US will 'get control of the mineral -rich territory' somehow ', with tensions that rattles as leaders from Greenland and Denmark condemned the American approach as' aggressive'.
Against this background of widespread recoil against Washington, Denmark made changes to the travel route of the American delegation as a diplomatic victory.
The decision of the vice -president to visit an American military base in the north of Greenland, instead of making a tour of the country, has removed the risk of violating potential diplomatic taboos by sending a delegation to another country without an official invitation.
JD Vance will visit Usha with his wife Usha on Friday with his wife. The couple is depicted during a visit to France in February
When the Prime Minister of Greenland heard Mute B. Egeede about the back-to-back journeys, he was furious and raged in a statement to local media
Donald Trump (photo) puts unacceptable pressure on Greenland, said the prime minister of Denmark today
The Prime Minister Van Denmark Mette Frederiksen (photo) made the comments prior to a trip to the semi-autonomous Danish territory this week by a high-profile American delegation
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark welcomed the decision to change the planned visit, which was expected to attend a popular race with dog sled.
The White House announced that the delegation would be led by JD Vance instead, but that it would only visit the American space base at Pituffik in Northern Groenland and not the race with dog sled.
'I think it is very positive that the Americans have canceled their visit to Greenland society. Instead, they will visit their own base, Pituffik, and we have nothing against it, “Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the Omroep Dr.
Yet it is unlikely that Vance's journey will fall well, both on the island and with Denmark.
Lars-Christian Brask, the deputy speaker of the Danish parliament, said today: “After they have changed now, so that they only visit the base is a bit more acceptable, although still very strange.”
In response to the news of Vance's this morning, the leading Danish politician Vance and the US accused of being 'intimidating' and claimed that the visit was somewhat 'a provocation' and a 'show of strength' represented.
He told BBC Radio 4 that every American efforts to take Greenland would be 'NATO against NATO', although he said he did not know how that could happen.
In anticipation of the announcement of the vice -president that he would join his wife, the dissatisfaction of the governments of Greenland and Denmark had become sharper, whereby the Government of Greenland on Facebook -post on Facebook was placed on Facebook that it “had no invitations for visits, neither private nor officially.”
Prior to the announced visit from Vance, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said yesterday that the US exerts 'unacceptable pressure'.
Frederiksen told the local broadcaster TV2 on Tuesday: 'I have to say that it is an unacceptable pressure that is exerted in this situation on Greenland and Denmark. And it's busy that we will resist. '
“This is clearly not a visit that Greenland needs or wants,” she added.
Thule Air Base is the northernmost base of the US Army, about 750 miles above the polar circle
The office of Second Lady Usha Vance said on Sunday that she would leave for Greenland on Thursday and return on Saturday.
Mrs. VANCE and one of her three children was planning to visit historical sites and learn about the culture of Greenland, but the participation of her husband has repeated the journey around national security.
The Vice President said he didn't want to let his wife “that all that pleasure alone” and said he is planning to visit a space post of the Space Force in the northwest coast of Greenland.
Danish parliamentarian Mr. Brask said that 'Groenlanders and Danes are stunned' by his comments in the video, where many see the video as 'insensitive' and 'some uncertainty'.
Vance has repeatedly criticized long -term European allies because they rely on military support from the United States, openly antagonating partners in ways that have generated concern about the reliability of America.
Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, was initially mentioned by the group of American officials who were also on their way to Greenland – but his name was omitted when it was announced that the vice president was now present.
The White House did not say on Tuesday whether Waltz's travel plans had changed after it was revealed that he had wrongly added a journalist to a safe message -app conversation about a military strike in Yemen.
Vance said that leaders in Denmark and North America had 'ignored Greenland' for 'way too long'.
The visit to Pituffik Space Base takes place instead of the previously announced journey from USSha Vance to the Avanaata Qimussersu Dogsled Race in Sisimiut.
But Dwayne Ryan Menezes, founder and director of the Polar Research & Policy Initiative, said that the 'intimidation' of the Trump administration of Greenland could be counterproductive.
Menezes said that if Trump was 'smart enough' to understand the strategic importance of Greenland that he should also be 'smart enough to know that there is no larger way to weaken America's hand and to harm his long -term interests than his allies turn his back on the most important asymmetrical advantage that it enjoys to his opponents.'
People participate in a demonstration for the American consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 15, 2025, under the slogan 'Greenland is one of the Greenland people' ''
Although civil servants in Greenland and Denmark become more vocal in expressing objections, VANCE can visit the space base, Marc Jacobsen said, a professor at the Royal Danish Defense College, due to an agreement of 1951 between Denmark and the US about the defense of Greenland.
“What is controversial here is all about the timing,” he said. “Greenland and Denmark have clearly stated that they do not want the US to visit now, when Greenland has no government.”
During his first term, Trump drove the idea of buying the world's largest island, even when Denmark, a NATO fellow fellow, stated that it was not for sale. The people of Greenland have also strongly rejected Trump's plans.
The return from Trump to the White House has recorded a wish with territorial extension, in which the US President Canada tries to add as a 51st state and resumes control of the Panama Canal. He also indicated that American interests could take over the country in the Gaza Strip of Israel and can convert it into a luxury outpost.
