Greenland tourism firm cancels Usha Vance visit fearing 'media spectacle'

[groundloop]

Source: The Independent

A Greenland tourism business that was due to host second lady Usha Vance has canceled her visit, fearing it would descend into a “media spectacle”.

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The U.S. Consulate initially reached out to Tupilak Travel in Nuuk ahead of the days-long visit, during which the second lady and one of her children would “immerse themselves” in Greenlandic culture and visit the annual dogsled race.

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Reacting to the change, Tupilak Travel issued a sternly-worded statement which read: “When the American consulate called yesterday to ask if the wife of the U.S. Vice President, Usha Vance, could visit our store on Friday, we replied that she was welcome. After all, everyone is welcome in our store.

“However, upon further consideration, we have now informed the consulate that we do not wish to host her visit, as we cannot accept the underlying agenda and do not want to be part of the media spectacle that will inevitably follow,” it read.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/greenland-vance-trump-visit-denmark-b2722778.html

[Captain Zero]

1. Why is Greenland even letting them

In the country?

Of course either way it is going to be used for propaganda here in the US.

[BadgerMom]

27. I believe there's a US Space Force base in Greenland and they're landing there.

Info about this trip is changing, but the last report I read said that now the Vance’s will stay on the base.

[montanacowboy]

2. Go Greenland!

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hey Vance's what do you not get about stay the hell out of Greenland

[Think. Again.]

3. They're actually going to bring one of their children into this mess????

[ToxMarz]

25. It seems mostly when I've seen him being out in public

and not hiding behind some encrypted app, he is instead hiding behind his children OUTRAGED that anyone would dare say anything negative too him in front of his children.

[Dulcinea]

28. Why not? It's good enough for Eloon Muskovite.

He drags his kid around everywhere. I feel sorry for that poor little guy.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

31. You mean Booger?

[travelingthrulife]

32. Human shield. These are despicable people.

[ananda]

39. They need a vulnerable innocent to hide behind...

and use to blame Greenlanders if the child gets upset.

[Think. Again.]

40. They won't even be leaving the frozen wasteland the military base is on.

I hope the kid brought a gameboy or something.

[Crowman2009]

4. On a side note, is it just me or does Usha talk like a robot.?

[Aristus]

35. Political Stepford wives may as well be.

It's their job to gaze adoringly at their husbands, and nod and grin vapidly at everything their husbands say.

Mrs. Aristus once cautioned me against going into politics. She said she can do the gaze adoringly thing, no problem. But no way was she going to nod and grin enthusiastically at everything I say.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Too bad

I was looking forward to the humiliating spectacle of Greenland giving them the finger.

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. You know what, Usha if you want to immerse yourself

in Greenlandic culture, stay home and read a book. Read the room, the Felon has made it so Americans are not welcome. Hopefully that book hasn't been banned in today's amerca.

[FakeNoose]

38. Also she can learn some Danish - that would REALLY impress them

... Not that any Repuke would even consider it.

[IcyPeas]

41. Culture? Trump is erasing all the culture from america. He hates culture.....

(Unless its white culture)

[Escape]

7. I would have thought....

she was smarter than this. Why did she allow her handlers to get her involved in this Trumpian silliness?

She was the only one of Trump's corrupt entourage I thought might be a decent person.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. She's not.

[Skittles]

10. she married JD Fucking Vance

how smart can she be?

[VTderry]

11. And clerked for Kavanaugh, lest there be even a wisp of a belief that

she is less of a POS than her spouse.

[Skittles]

12. you got that right

UGH!

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Kavanaugh

probably had a button on his desk, just like Trump.....that he pushed whenever he wanted a beer, and she was the one who brought it to him......

[Escape]

13. Good point!

[Aristus]

36. Or decent?

n/t

[Raven123]

14. She married JD Vance. Analyze that.

Honestly not worth the attempt, but it does explain some of her decision making capacity

[Skittles]

17. someone told me he wasn't always as bad as he is now

but I imagine he has always been a fucking asshole

[Dulcinea]

29. He's an angry white man with a huge chip on his shoulder.

This is what happens when people like him get access to power.

[Skittles]

30. he is pathetic

but then that is a requirement of being a Trump bootlicker

[Joinfortmill]

9. Good.

[Bev54]

15. Is the Trump administration feeling the love yet?

This is the best they are going to get.

[Cha]

20. Yeah, brilliant... IOW... "We don't want to

be a part of your Gaslit media Spectacle!

[twodogsbarking]

18. Can't Greenland take US over.

[Cha]

19. Whoa Dude.. Excellent Reply!!

TY

[oasis]

21. Take a hike grifters.

[ClarencesBrother]

22. If Usha

Wanted to observe a dogsled race, why not sign up for ICE, a total dog shit race.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Vance's team 'pleading with Greenland residents' to meet VP and wife

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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/vance-team-door-door-pleading-184157827.html

[DFW]

24. They should have concentrated more on "charm" and less on "offensive."

Charm: we love your nation’s natural beauty, and want to do whatever we can to help you preserve it.

Offensive: we think your nation’s natural beauty has a wonderfully strategic location. Denmark should give it up. Not to the people living there, but to the USA, and thus to whomever has the heaviest influence on the current administration.

Apparently, it hasn’t dawned on the current leaders of the American foreign policy desk that the most effective seduction line is not “let’s fuck.”

[travelingthrulife]

33. Republicans on a 'charm offensive'. LOL.

[Emrys]

26. Danish media also reported that desperate US representatives went doorknocking around Nuuk,

asking if anyone would like to invite Usha Vance to visit them at home.

No takers. Not one.

[FakeNoose]

34. I hope this is true, but even if it isn't

... it's a great story that illustrates how much we are loathed in Greenland now.

Go MGGA - Make Greenland Great Again

[Emrys]

37. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin has more details upthread:

Last edited Fri Mar 28, 2025, 04:37 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3427857

(I hadn't noticed that post till I'd posted mine).

[Crowman2009]

42. Makes me wish we had an actual human as the VP's first lady.

Someone with empathy, someone like....I don't know....Gwen Walz!