Trump says ‘We cannot’ dispense with Greenland, since Vance Tours territory amid the acquisition controversy of us

Vice President JD Vance doubled the interest of the Trump administration to acquire Greenland on Friday while visiting the United States Pituffik space base when President Donald Trump argued that the United States “cannot” dispense with the island.

Vance emphasized how Greenland is vital for the national security of the United States while talking with journalists on Friday afternoon.

“Well, the president said we have to have Greenland. And I think we have to be more serious about the security of Greenland,” he said. “We cannot ignore this place. We cannot ignore the president’s wishes.”

Trump has repeatedly suggested that the United States should take care of Greenland “in one way or another” for national security purposes and, as he continues to emphasize the importance of Greenland as China and Russia increase the activity in the Arctic.

“We have to have Greenland. It’s not a matter of: Do you think we can do without him? We can’t,” he said in the Oval office on Friday. “If you look at Greenland at this time, if you look at the river tracks, you have Chinese and Russian ships throughout the place, and we cannot do it.

“We do not trust Denmark or any other person to take care of that situation,” he added. “And we are not talking about peace for the United States.”

“Greenland is very important for the peace of the world, not us, the peace of the entire world,” said Trump, who made proposals on the purchase of Greenland in his first mandate in office. “And I think Denmark understands it. I think the European Union understands it. And if they don’t, we will have to explain it.”

However, Vance said the administration “respects the self -determination of the people of Greenland”, but that the United States security umbrella would serve them better.

“Yes, the people of Greenland will have self -determination,” he said. “We hope they choose to associate with the United States because we are the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their safety, because their security is our security, as these brave Americans show.”

Vance added that Denmark has not kept the people of Greenland and US troops at the base safe from “very aggressive incursions of Russia, China and other nations.”

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: the people of Greenland have not done a good job. You have invested in the people of Greenland, and you have invested in the security architecture of this incredible and beautiful dough of land full of incredible people. That has to change,” he said.

The vice president and the second Lady Usha Vance arrived in Greenland on Friday for a visit to the Pituffik space base, where she delivered comments and received information sessions after the couple greeted the members of the United States service parked there. While meeting with the members of the service, JD Vance said he is the first vice president to visit Groenland, saying that it is “something quite good”, before giving an overview of the visit.

“We are talking to the command and some of the guardians about what exactly does the base and all the important ways in which it contributes to national security. We will obtain an informative session, of course, about, you know, what you do every day,” he said.

The vice president said that they told him that the assignment to the base was a one year assignment and not accompanied, which means that service members cannot bring their families.

“So I know that there are many sacrifices, spending a year out of their families, but the mission is really important,” he added. “The Trump administration, the president is really interested in Arctic’s security. As everyone knows, that is a big problem, and it will only become bigger in the coming decades. So thanks for doing what you do.”

The Vances joined the trip to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Senator Mike Lee. The trip was originally planned as a visit for the second lady to attend a breed of dogs, but that plan was discarded after strong criticism.

Wright told Fox News on Thursday that Greenland has tried for years to interest American mining companies to develop resources there because there is not enough infrastructure for mining to be economical.

“Then, hell, maybe that will happen,” he said. “I think that is the best for Greenland and the Greenlands, and they have expressed it for years. If the United States can have adequate cooperation, I think that capital can flow there, which would bring Economic jobs and opportunities to Greenland and minerals and critical resources to the United States, a victory for both parties.”

The idea that Greenland becomes part of the United States opposes many in Greenland and Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous territory.

Usha Vance was originally scheduled to make the trip to know the cultural heritage of Greenland and attend the race before it was announced that the vice president, Waltz and Wright would join it. The trip then reduced to a visit to the spatial base.

JD Vance and Waltz are in the center of the scandal about the alleged conversation about the attack on the hutis rebels in Yemen for the application of commercially available signal that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who reported details of the conversation on Monday.

Officials in Greenland and Denmark have pressed the visit.

Reuters reported that Danish defense minister Troels Lond Poulen, described Trump’s statements as an “escalation” in Trump’s rhetoric.

“These very powerful statements about a nearby ally do not adapt to the president of the United States,” Pouls in journalists in Copenhagen on Thursday. “I need to speak clearly against what I see as an escalation on the American side.”

On Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a publication on social networks that the United States is putting “unacceptable pressure” in Greenland and Denmark before the unre requested visit, and added that the two regions “will resist.”

The time of the visit was criticized both in Greenland and in Denmark when Greenland tries to put together a coalition government after the parliamentary elections two weeks ago.

-Michelle Stoddart ‘ABC News contributed to this report.