Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance, announced over the weekend that she plans to visit Greenland, the Danish territory that President Donald Trump has been musing about taking over since his first term. The Second Lady announced that she would go to Greenland for two days and attend Avannaata Qimussersu, the Greenland national dog race.
The Administration’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, will also go on the trip, the Financial Times reported.
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The Second Lady was mocked on social media for the announcement, and now Greenland’s prime minister has also weighed in.
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Múte B Egede, Greenland’s prime minister, said Monday that the U.S. officials’ visit was “highly aggressive.”
The visits, he said, “can in no way be characterized as a harmless visit… because what is the security advisor doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us, and the signal is not to be misunderstood,” the prime minister said, per Euronews.
Greenland’s Prime Minister, Múte B. Egede, criticized the upcoming visit of Second Lady Usha Vance and White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to the island, calling it ‘very aggressive American pressure.’ He added:
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“Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede told local newspaper Sermitsiaq, per Reuters. “But that time is over.”
Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, told Reuters that the trip’s purpose is to “build on partnerships that respect Greenland’s self-determination and advances economic cooperation… This is a visit to learn about Greenland, its culture, history, and people and attend a dogsled race the United States proudly sponsors, plain and simple.”
Donald Trump, Jr. visited Greenland in January, a few days before his father’s second inauguration. Shortly afterward, the Guardian reported that a group of homeless people in the Greenland capital of Nuuk had been given free lunches as an inducement to attend Don Jr.’s event.
The son of the president “had just met them in the street and invited them for lunch, or his staff did. But I don’t think they knew who they were inviting,” the hotel owner was quoted as saying.
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