MSNBC Foreign Correspondent Hits Vances With A Harsh Truth About Their Greenland Trip | EUROtoday

MSNBC overseas correspondent Molly Hunter delivered a blunt actuality examine Thursday concerning the Trump administration’s overtures towards Greenland, as Vice President JD Vance and second woman Usha Vance ready to go to the nation Friday.

Reporting reside from the capital metropolis of Nuuk, Hunter stated, “We have met no one in the 18 hours that we’ve been on the ground who has been enthusiastic about this trip.”

Originally deliberate as a “cultural tour” led by Usha Vance, the go to has been “scaled back” and reframed as a nationwide safety journey, with a cease at a U.S. Space Force base, and now contains the vice chairman himself, stated Hunter.

“No one was particularly enthusiastic” about being a part of Usha Vance’s journey, she stated.

Speaking with locals, Hunter stated, the revised itinerary was now seen as extra applicable. “No one felt particularly angry that they [the Vances] were going to meet with” U.S. army personnel, she stated.

Her evaluation of native feeling was echoed by Danish broadcaster TV 2’s Jesper Steinmetz, who reported that U.S. representatives informally polling Greenlanders a few potential go to from Usha Vance had been met with “no, no, no, no, no, every single time.”

Mineral-rich Greenland has lengthy been cited by Trump as key to U.S. nationwide safety, an concept that has been firmly rejected by Danish and Greenlandic officers. Many Greenlanders are extra centered on gaining independence.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), a vocal critic of Trump, skewered the awkwardness of the journey throughout the phase, joking that the White House ought to’ve despatched actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus as an alternative: “And play a little ‘Veep’ soundtrack for this trip because that’s what this is shaping up to be.”