{"id":268997,"date":"2025-03-28T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/flying-to-greenland-vance-is-visiting-a-place-that-doesnt-want-him\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:17:06","slug":"flying-to-greenland-vance-is-visiting-a-place-that-doesnt-want-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/flying-to-greenland-vance-is-visiting-a-place-that-doesnt-want-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying to Greenland, Vance Is Visiting a Place That Doesn\u2019t Want Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/28\/multimedia\/28int-greenland-US-01-fbhl\/28int-greenland-US-01-fbhl-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Flying to Greenland, Vance Is Visiting a Place That Doesn\u2019t Want Him\" title=\"Flying to Greenland, Vance Is Visiting a Place That Doesn\u2019t Want Him\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-greenland.html\" title=\"\">his desire to \u201cget\u201d the island<\/a>, many Greenlanders don\u2019t want Mr. Vance coming at all. Mr. Vance is scheduled to visit a remote American military base on the northern coast, far from any town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House\u2019s original plan was more ambitious. Usha Vance, the second lady, had announced that she was going to attend a famous dog sled race this weekend and see other cultural sites, in an effort to bring the United States and Greenland closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the plan <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/23\/us\/politics\/usha-vance-trump-us-greenland.html\" title=\"\">backfired<\/a>. Protesters were gearing up to line the road from the airport in Nuuk, Greenland\u2019s capital. The island\u2019s government blasted the visit as unwanted and \u201chighly aggressive.\u201d And the organizers of the dog sled race released a pointed statement saying they had never asked Ms. Vance to attend in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for Ms. Vance took issue with this, saying she had received \u201cmultiple invitations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House responded by scaling back the trip to just a sweep by Mr. Vance, his wife and other officials through the remote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/world\/europe\/greenland-us-space-base.html\" title=\"\">Pituffik Space Base<\/a>, an American missile defense station nearly a thousand miles away from where the protests were planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark that has been connected to Denmark for more than 300 years. The Danish government also strongly opposed the original plan, and on Thursday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, \u201cThere is no doubt that we are facing a difficult situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to Danish media, Mr. Vance will land at the base around 1:30 p.m. Greenland time. American officials said he would travel with Chris Wright, the energy secretary; Mike Lee, a Republican senator; and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser who is under fire for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/signal-michael-waltz-trump-goldberg.html\" title=\"\">discussing military plans over a messaging app<\/a> in a group that included a journalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Foreign policy analysts say the new plan is a weaker version of what the White House wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a tactical retreat \u2014 a repositioning to strike harder later,\u201d said Lars Trier Mogensen, a political analyst based in Copenhagen. \u201cOn the one hand, they de-escalated by not carrying out the full cultural mission and skipping the P.R. stunt. On the other hand, it\u2019s a symbolic escalation that the highest-ranking official is visiting Greenland, reinforcing Trump\u2019s message that it should become American.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since his first term, Mr. Trump has been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-greenland-why.html\" title=\"\">fixated on Greenland<\/a>. In 2019, he floated the idea of buying it: Danish officials called that \u201cabsurd,\u201d which provoked Mr. Trump into calling them \u201cnasty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This January, Mr. Trump resurrected his interest in Greenland for \u201cnational security purposes\u201d and refused to rule out using force to take it from Denmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Greenland\u2019s massive size \u2014 it\u2019s the largest island in the world, three times bigger than Texas \u2014 and its location in North America along the increasingly contested Arctic Ocean seems to be the root of Mr. Trump\u2019s fascination. Members of his inner circle, including Mr. Vance, have also spoken of Greenland\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/greenland-minerals-trump.html\" title=\"\">\u201cincredible natural resources<\/a>\u201d (though most of them are buried under ice).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just this week, Mr. Trump said again: \u201cWe need it. We have to have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFrom a defensive posture and even offensive posture,\u201d he said, Greenland is \u201csomething we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Greenland had been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/world\/europe\/greenland-election.html\" title=\"\">steadily inching away from Denmark<\/a>, with the island gaining more power over its own affairs and Greenlanders showing more interest in full independence. There is \u2014 or there was until recently \u2014 a significant movement within Greenland that wanted to form a closer alliance with the United States, which has stationed troops on the island since World War II, for trade and military purposes. But the mood in the past few weeks has turned even more against Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, during an overcast day in Nuuk, ordinary Greenlanders said they were not happy about Mr. Vance coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what he wants,\u201d said Tupaarnaq Kanuthsen, a woman on maternity leave, as she walked through Nuuk. \u201cHe\u2019s not welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jens Olsen, a retiree on his way to the bank, said, \u201cThey have no business here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said Mr. Vance \u201cshould be kicked out by the police immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/world\/europe\/jd-vance-greenland-visit-denmark-us.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders. Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island. But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/28\/multimedia\/28int-greenland-US-01-fbhl\/28int-greenland-US-01-fbhl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23724,6062,1022,10923,169367,1401,1021,128437,28314,81146,27086],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268999,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268997\/revisions\/268999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}