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Amid President Trump’s push to take over the world’s largest island, the administration says it is sending the vice president to visit a military base there.
- Published March 25, 2025Updated March 26, 2025, 4:23 a.m. ET
The Trump administration seems like it just doubled down on Greenland.
Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that he was headed to the island later this week, taking over a controversial visit that officials in Greenland have made very clear they don’t want at all.
Originally, the Trump administration said that Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, would make the trip to Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark that President Trump wants for the United States.
Officials from Denmark and Greenland immediately branded the move “aggressive” and part of the president’s plan to get the island, as he recently put it, “one way or the other.”
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The White House then issued a statement on Tuesday afternoon changing up the visit. The new itinerary is for Mr. and Ms. Vance to visit Pituffik Space Base, an American military installation high above the Arctic Circle, “to receive a briefing on Arctic security issues and meet with U.S. service members.”
In a post on X, Mr. Vance said he would “just check out what’s going on with the security there of Greenland.”
