The Trump administration seems doubled on Greenland.
Vice -president JD Vance announced Tuesday to be directed on the island at the end of this week, winning a controversial visit that Greenland officials have clarified that they don’t want to.
At the beginning of this week, the Trump administration declared that Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security councilor, were traveling to Greenland to promote ties with the semi -autonomous territory of Denmark that President Trump wants for the United States.
Officials of Denmark and Greenland immediately marked the journey as “aggressive” and part of the president of the president to obtain the island, as he recently said, “in one way or another”.
The White House released a statement on Tuesday afternoon by changing the plan. And in a post on X, Mr. Vance said he would “simply verify what’s going on with the security there of Greenland”.
He accused Denmark of ignoring the island, which, he said, was “bad for the safety of the whole world”.
“We think we can take things in a different direction,” he added, “so I’m going to take a look.”
The anti-trump sentiment has constantly risen to the island and activists are already preparing to protest against the arrival of the American delegation, starting from international airport in the capital, Nuuk.
The anti-trump animosity in Denmark also grows every day. On Tuesday, a few hours before Mr. Vance made his announcement, the prime minister puts Frederiksen from Denmark defined the “unacceptable” journey and swore to “resist”.
Greenland officials stressed that they did not invite the Americans in the first place.
Initially, the plan was for Mrs. Vance and one of her children to look at a dog sled race on Saturday, an beloved tradition of Greenland. But the organizers of the race made a pointed declaration on Sunday according to which the race was open to the public, they had not asked the vans to participate.
A spokesman for Mrs. Vance denied him, saying that he had received “multiple invitations”.
Officials of the American administration had also affirmed that Mr. Waltz would visit an American military base on the northern coast of the island. But with Mr. Waltz now involved in a dispute on his use of an application of mobile phone messages to discuss sensitive war plans, his participation seems in the air.
In his new declaration on Tuesday, the White House said that Mr. Vance would visit the Space Base of Pitugik, at the top of the Arctic Circle, “to receive a briefing on Arctic safety problems and meet with the members of the US service”.
The American government has a long -standing defense agreement with Denmark that allows him to stay troops in Greenland and essentially make them go and come at will.
The statement also indicated that Mrs. Vance would no longer go to the dog sled race. It is not clear whether the vans also pass through Nuuk on the road to the base, an installation of missile defense, which is located almost 1,000 miles north of the capital.