Some think Vance tried to block an order from Trump. Others feel he is on the wrong side of a rift between MAGA and GOP internationalists.
N UUK, Greenland — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.
JD Vance talks about the retreat of Europe from some of its most basic values, but democratic values are eroding across the world. A Danish book from 1945 explains why.
Vance’s departure from his predecessors in the foreign policy theater stems from a generational shift following the Global War on Terror, according to Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida.
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.
Vice President JD Vance’s trip to an island that President Trump wants to “get” was a scaled-back version of the original White House plan. “He’s not welcome,” one Greenlander said.
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Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg says messages from JD Vance exchanged in a Signal chat with top officials indicate that the vice president thinks President Trump does not “understand” what he’s doing with Houthis airstrikes.