Washington – Second Lady Usha Vance Plan a trip to Green Earthat a time when the president Donald Trump He has suggested that the United States should take control over the autonomous territory and rich in minerals of the American ally Denmark.
Vance will leave Thursday and return on Saturday, according to his office. Vance and one of his three children will be part of an American delegation that “will visit historical sites” and “Learn about the heritage of Greenland.”
The media in Greenland and Denmark reported that Vance would be accompanied by Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz. The White House and the National Security Council did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
Trump had reflected during his first term on the purchase of the world’s largest island, even when Denmark, an NATO ally, insisted that he was not on sale. The people of Greenland have also firmly rejected Trump’s plans.
Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that Trump “doesn’t care” what Europeans think.
He said that Denmark “is not doing his job” with Greenland and “is not a good ally”, and “if that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do,” Vance said in the “future Sunday morning” of Fox News. “
“Because he doesn’t care what Europeans shout us, he cares about putting the interests of US citizens first,” Vance said.
Since he returned to the White House, Trump has repeatedly said that the United States will come to control Greenland by insisting that he supports the idea for strategic reasons for national security, not with an eye towards American expansionism.
“I think we will have it,” Trump said about Greenland shortly after starting his second term on January 20. The United States already has a military base in Greenland and the president’s eldest, Donald Trump Jr., He visited it in January.
During his visit, Usha Vance will attend Advanaata Qimussersu, the National Race of Dogs of Greenland, with about 37 Mushers and 444 dogs. The statement said that Vance and the United States delegation “are excited to witness this monumental breed and celebrate the culture and unity of Greenland.”
During a recent Oval Office meeting with NATO general secretary Mark Rutte, Trump said “Denmark is very far” from Greenland, and questioned if that country still had the right to claim the largest island in the world as part of its kingdom.
“A boat landed there 200 years or something ago. And they say they have rights over it,” Trump said. “I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t think it’s really.”
The five parts in the Parliament of Greenland issued a joint statement Last week he rejected Trump’s comments. Denmark has recognized the right to independence of Greenland at a time of choice.
Beyond his focus on Greenland, Trump has He refused to rule out military intervention in Panama To resume the channel of that country, he said that Canada should be State 51 of the United States and suggested that the interests of the United States could assume control of the torn Gaza Strip of Israel and rebuilding it as A complex with the sea of ”Riviera”.
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Associated Press Kirsten Grieshaber writer in Berlin contributed to this report.
