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Eugene

(66,972 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:00 PM Mar 2025

Usha Vance's Greenland Trip Is Already Backfiring on Trump [View all]

Earlier DU thread: Greenland to rump: No, we didn't invite you

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Source: The New Republic

Usha Vance’s Greenland Trip Is Already Backfiring on Trump

Edith Olmsted
Tue, March 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM EDT·2 min read

Greenland flatly denied inviting members of Donald Trump’s administration to visit Monday, after the U.S. president claimed that the presence of White House officials had been requested.

A group including second lady Usha Vance, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and national security adviser Mike Waltz of group chat fame, are expected to arrive Thursday on the massive island territory that the U.S. president longed to control before even entering the White House.

Trump claimed Monday that officials from Greenland had “requested” to meet with a team from the U.S. government.

“People from Greenland are asking us to go there,” Trump said.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/usha-vance-greenland-trip-already-140819207.html

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... just like the people from Kuwait asked Saddam to go there?

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