3 w. ago JD Vance repeatedly attacks media during Signalgate questioning during Greenland trip

Vice President JD Vance attacked the media’s ‘obsession’ with Signalgate after being asked about an internal investigation into the security leak.

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3 w. ago JD Vance repeatedly slams Denmark, accusing leaders of not doing ‘a good job by the people of Greenland’

Vance said one ‘can’t just ignore’ President Donald Trump’s ‘desire’ to take control of the island

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3 w. ago Kimmel on ‘Signalgate’: ‘A perfect storm of incompetence, inexperience, dishonesty and hypocrisy’

Late-night hosts discuss JD Vance’s trip Greenland and official efforts to downplay sending war plans to a journalistLate-night hosts talked the Trump administration’s attempts to deflect from the Signal group chat leak, Mike Waltz’s public Venmo and JD Vance’s unwanted visit to Greenland. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start | Marina Hyde

The widely reviled veep and his wife may not see much of the island they’d like to annex, but the US military base will be lovely at this time of yearThere’s a Gerard Butler movie called Greenland, which – via a series of cataclysmic events handled incredibly Butlerishly – ends with Gerard cocooned in a remote secure bunker in Greenland. As the week has worn on, this has increasingly become the mood of today’s supposedly super-fun tourist trip to Greenland by the second lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and her husband, the vice-president, JD Vance. Who, come to think of it, does actually look like the Cabbage Patch Gerard Butler.Anyway: Greenland. Like I say, the trip has evolved this week both in style and substance. Originally, it was announced that the second lady was going to take one of her sons, immerse herself in various local events – she’s apparently simply fascinated by Greenland’s culture – and attend the famous Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race. No more. Now, it’...

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3 w. ago Usha Vance suffers fresh humiliation in Greenland after US officials knocking door to door get embarrassing response

Second Lady Usha Vance's scheduled trip to Greenland has become an embarrassment for the Trump administration.

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3 w. ago JD Vance to expect frosty reception in Greenland amid diplomatic row

Visit by US vice-president and wife met with hostility by leaders after Trump’s threats to acquire territoryThe US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha are due to touch down in Greenland on Friday in a drastically scaled down trip after the original plans for the unsolicited visit prompted an international diplomatic row.The visit to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be closely watched by leaders in Nuuk and Copenhagen, who have aired their opposition to the trip amid ongoing threats by Donald Trump to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Greenland travel agency cancels Usha Vance visit over 'underlying agenda' and 'media spectacle'

Greenlanders are furious over proposals by Donald Trump that the US take over the territory

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3 w. ago US Vice President Vance to join his wife on Friday trip to Greenland

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake

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3 w. ago JD Vance's wife Usha leads 'very aggressive' Greenland trip as she claims visit is about dogs

Usha Vance, the wife of Republican frontrunner JD Vance, is set to visit Greenland in a move that has been described as 'very aggressive' by the territory's outgoing prime minister

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3 w. ago US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland with planned trip by Trump officials, Danish PM says – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says trip by Usha Vance, Mike Waltz and Chris Wright is ‘clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants’A historic high of nearly three quarters of European citizens think their country benefits from EU membership, amid increasing geopolitical turbulence.According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, 74% of people think their country benefits from EU membership, the best result since this question was first asked in 1983, reflecting an increasingly positive mood since 2010 when the union was in the depths of the eurozone financial crisis. Continue reading...

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