Vice President JD Vance is now accompanying his wife on the trip. The itinerary has changed so they will only visit the Pituffik Space Base on Greenland's northwest coast. Earlier plans for the trip had included Usha Vance visiting Greenland's capital Nuuk, historic sites and attending the Avannaata Qimussersu dogsled race in Sisimiut.
Donald Trump after J.D. Vance's visit to the territory said that using "military force" to annex Greenland is not "off the table."
The visit came a day after Donald Trump said his administration will “go as far as we have to go” to acquire the island.
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JD Vance criticized Denmark for neglecting Greenland's people and security during a visit to Pituffik Space Base, and Greenlandic officials had mixed reactions.
Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News recently, adding that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that he doesn’t “take anything off the table.” Meanwhile, during his visit to the would-be American territory,
Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of running for an unconstitutional third term as president, but it’s never clear how seriously he’s actually considering it, and some of his allies have insisted the president — who has likened himself to a king — is joking.
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The prime minister of Greenland pushed back Sunday against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory. Greenland, a huge, resource-rich island in the Atlantic,