US Delegation, Led by VP's Wife, Faces Backlash Over Greenland Visit

The posse around Usha Vance's visit to Greenland is developing into a diplomatic crisis: now Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is also strongly criticizing the trip. Previously, the Greenland government had guarded itself against a claim by President Donald Trump.

U.S. Officials' Planned Visit to Greenland Is Inappropriate: Denmark - teleSUR English

If they don’t clearly condemn the U.S. treatment of Greenland, the situation will escalate every day, President Egede warned. On Monday, the Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that the planned visit of senior U.S. officials, including the National Security Adviser, to Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory once openly coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, is “inappropriate.” RELATED: Greenlanders Demonstrate Outside The US Con…

Greenland neither wants nor needs visits from the United States in the current situation, says Mette Frederiksen.

Greenland neither wants nor needs visits from the United States in the current situation, says Mette Frederiksen.

Trump says Greenland officials invited US delegation. Greenland says that's not true.

Greenland flatly denied a claim made by President Donald Trump that officials from the island invited a delegation led by Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, to visit the Arctic territory this week.

Greenland receives a visit from the USA again: On Thursday, Usha Vance wants to arrive – the wife of Trump-Vize J. D. Vance. Security adviser Mike Waltz and energy minister Chris Wright also announced themselves in Nuuk. Premier Múte Egede, who is still in office after the Greenland elections, sees a dangerous "provocation", especially since Trump has repeatedly declared that the US will take over the island "in one way or another".