Vance team ‘go door-to-door’ pleading with Greenlanders to welcome VP and wife

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/27/vance-team-plead-greenlanders-welcome-jd-usha/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports***:

    US representatives canvassed door-to-door in Greenland as part of a “charm offensive” to sound out whether residents would welcome a visit from Usha Vance, it has been claimed.

    The second lady and one of her sons had been set to visit the Danish territory this week after Donald Trump continued to inflame tensions by announcing it should come under US control.

    Ahead of her visit, staffers reportedly spent a week traipsing around Nuuk, the capital city, to gauge the feeling among residents.

    “The Americans’ charm offensive mission has failed,” Jesper Steinmetz, a reporter for TV 2, said.

    “They have finally understood what the Greenlanders here in town have been trying to tell them for a little over a week: ‘We don’t want visitors right now’,” he said.

    Mr Steinmetz added Americans had been “deployed” in Nuuk and were “knocking on doors and ringing doorbells” to ask if residents would welcome a visit from Mrs Vance.

    “They’ve gotten no, no, no, no, no, every single time,” he said.

    The claims are at odds with the vice-president’s comments earlier this week, when he announced he would join his wife on the trip.

    “There was so much excitement around Usha’s visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn’t want her to have all that fun by herself and so I’m gonna join her,” he said.

    It comes after Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, accused the US of putting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland and Denmark.

    Mr Vance’s visit, which was initially set to include Mike Waltz, was branded “aggressive” by Greenland’s prime minister.

    Mute B Egede told local media: “What is the US national security adviser doing in Greenland? The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us.

    “His mere presence in Greenland will no doubt fuel American belief in Trump’s mission — and the pressure will increase.

    “We are now at a point where it can no longer be described as an innocent visit from a politician’s spouse… the international community must now react.”

    Mr Vance said leaders in Denmark and North America had “ignored” Greenland for “far too long”.

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  3. “Hi I am Vance can I annex your home…”

    *Door slammed

    “Hi I am Jay-Dee I am here to ann…”

    *Door slammed

    -3days later at the WH press event

    “Greenland is being very nasty, almost as nasty as Canada”

  6. For what it’s worth,I sure wish the US had gone door to door pleading with Iraqis or Afghanis to welcome us.

  7. Can’t they just bring some Americans and pretend they’re Greenlanders? They could be instructed to speak in gibberish in case CNN is trying to interview them.

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