Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance board Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday, March 28, 2025 en route to Greenland. (Jim Watson/Pool Photo via AP)
Vance is the highest-ranking official to ever travel as far north as Pituffik, the White House said.
Vance’s first trip abroad to Paris and Germany made waves for his tough talk on Europe, which iced over the U.S.’ relationship with some nations but precipitated a mobilization of funding by Europe for its own defense.
Trump has made it a mission to take over Greenland from Denmark in his second administration.
"We need Greenland for national security and international security," he told reporters in the Oval Office.
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The Pituffik Space Force Base is pictured in northern Greenland. (THOMAS TRAASDAHL/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump administration has dangled billions for Greenland to invest in developing its natural resources – rare Earth minerals and oil and gas reserves.
However, mining Greenland has proven notoriously difficult given that 80% of the island is covered in a sheet of ice.
Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede earlier this week called the upcoming Vance visit "very aggressive American pressure against the Greenlandic community" and called on European leaders to stand against it.
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Trump established the Space Force in 2019 as a way to defend against encroachment on America's interests in Earth's orbit. In recent years, China and Russia have stepped up their Arctic presence, investing in icebreakers, new nuclear submarines and rare Earth minerals.
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