U.S. President Donald Trump defended Second Lady Usha Vance’s upcoming visit to Greenland amid growing concerns over an American push to annex the island. Trump claimed Greenlanders sought U.S. protection, framing the visit as a friendly engagement. However, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede denounced the move as a provocation and accused the U.S. of applying aggressive pressure. Trump has previously floated expansionist ideas, including taking control of Ukraine’s nuclear sites and “owning” Gaza. In 2019, Denmark rejected his attempt to buy Greenland, but Trump has not ruled out coercive tactics.

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(00:00) yeah well not provocation this is uh friendliness not provocation we’re dealing with a lot of people from Greenland that would like to see something happen with respect to they’re being properly protected and properly taken care of they’re calling us we’re not calling them and we were invited over there and I thought it would be a great I have great respect for uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat [Music] up here [Music] [Music]
(01:15) the wife of our first uh of our great vice president i think she’s doing a she’s a brilliant woman she’s a very nice woman and she loves the concept of Greenland and so she’s going there and I think Marco is going there and some others are going there but we’ve been invited uh and they really like the idea because they have been somewhat abandoned as you know they haven’t been taken well good care of and I think uh Greenland’s going to be something that maybe is in our future i think it’s important uh it’s important from the
(01:50) standpoint of international security and if you look at the ships outside of Greenland you have Russia you have China you have lots of different people in lots of different [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] places [Music] heat heat [Music] heat heat
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