Danish channel TV 2 reported that U.S. representatives knocked on doors in Greenland’s capital Nuuk to see if residents would welcome a visit from Usha Vance.
The itinerary for second lady Usha Vance’s trip to Greenland was changed after people there refused to meet her, according to a journalist.
Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit a U.S. military base on Greenland’s northwest coast on a trip that was scaled back from what the White House initially announced.
Newsweek contacted a spokesperson for Vance for comment via social media.Why It Matters
It comes as relations between the U.S. and Denmark have soured over President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that the U.S. should control Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark. He has said that annexing Greenland is needed for «international, for world security.»
An overwhelming majority of Greenlanders do not support Trump’s plan. In a poll, conducted between January 22 and January 26 for Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenlandic paper Sermitsiaq, 85 percent of respondents said they did not support joining the U.S. Protests took place outside the U.S. consulate in Nuuk on March 15.
Usha Vance’s planned trip to Greenland sparked uproar from Greenlanders and Danes who were angry that the original itinerary was planned without their consultation. The government of Greenland said it had «not extended any invitations for any visits, neither private nor official.»What to Know
Jesper Steinmetz, a correspondent for Danish channel TV 2, reported that U.S. representatives had gone around «knocking on one door after another» in recent days to ask if they would welcome a visit from Usha Vance.
«Everywhere, the answer was the same: no thank you», Steinmetz said.
He said that was the reason the plans were changed.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters on Thursday that the change in plans is likely because U.
