JD to expect frosty reception in Greenland [View all]

Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Thu 27 Mar 2025 21.00 EDT

The US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha are due to touch down in Greenland on Friday in a drastically scaled down trip after the original plans for the unsolicited visit prompted an international diplomatic row.

The visit to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be closely watched by leaders in Nuuk and Copenhagen, who have aired their opposition to the trip amid ongoing threats by Donald Trump to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

“It’s safe to say we would rather not have him [Vance] in Greenland,” a government source in Copenhagen said.

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Before the Vances’ arrival, Trump said the US will “go as far as we have to go” to gain control of the island which he claimed the US “needs” for national and international security ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/jd-vance-greenland-visit-diplomatic-row

Perhaps in Pituffik, he can get handful of frozen sled-dog pooh or a nice yellow snowcone