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groundloop

(13,568 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 03:59 PM Mar 2025

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

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”.

[snip]

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.

[snip]

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

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Greenland tourism firm cancels Usha Vance visit fearing 'media spectacle' (Original Post) groundloop Mar 2025 OP
Why is Greenland even letting them Captain Zero Mar 2025 #1
I believe there's a US Space Force base in Greenland and they're landing there. BadgerMom Mar 2025 #27
Go Greenland! montanacowboy Mar 2025 #2
They're actually going to bring one of their children into this mess???? Think. Again. Mar 2025 #3
It seems mostly when I've seen him being out in public ToxMarz Mar 2025 #25
Why not? It's good enough for Eloon Muskovite. Dulcinea Mar 2025 #28
You mean Booger? Prof. Toru Tanaka Mar 2025 #31
Human shield. These are despicable people. travelingthrulife Mar 2025 #32
They need a vulnerable innocent to hide behind... ananda Mar 2025 #39
They won't even be leaving the frozen wasteland the military base is on. Think. Again. Mar 2025 #40
On a side note, is it just me or does Usha talk like a robot.? Crowman2009 Mar 2025 #4
Political Stepford wives may as well be. Aristus Mar 2025 #35
Too bad central scrutinizer Mar 2025 #5
You know what, Usha if you want to immerse yourself Buddyzbuddy Mar 2025 #6
Also she can learn some Danish - that would REALLY impress them FakeNoose Mar 2025 #38
Culture? Trump is erasing all the culture from america. He hates culture..... IcyPeas Mar 2025 #41
I would have thought.... Escape Mar 2025 #7
She's not. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2025 #8
she married JD Fucking Vance Skittles Mar 2025 #10
And clerked for Kavanaugh, lest there be even a wisp of a belief that VTderry Mar 2025 #11
you got that right Skittles Mar 2025 #12
Kavanaugh DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #16
Good point! Escape Mar 2025 #13
Or decent? Aristus Mar 2025 #36
She married JD Vance. Analyze that. Raven123 Mar 2025 #14
someone told me he wasn't always as bad as he is now Skittles Mar 2025 #17
He's an angry white man with a huge chip on his shoulder. Dulcinea Mar 2025 #29
he is pathetic Skittles Mar 2025 #30
Good. Joinfortmill Mar 2025 #9
Is the Trump administration feeling the love yet? Bev54 Mar 2025 #15
Yeah, brilliant... IOW... "We don't want to Cha Mar 2025 #20
Can't Greenland take US over. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #18
Whoa Dude.. Excellent Reply!! Cha Mar 2025 #19
Take a hike grifters. oasis Mar 2025 #21
If Usha ClarencesBrother Mar 2025 #22
Vance's team 'pleading with Greenland residents' to meet VP and wife Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #23
They should have concentrated more on "charm" and less on "offensive." DFW Mar 2025 #24
Republicans on a 'charm offensive'. LOL. travelingthrulife Mar 2025 #33
Danish media also reported that desperate US representatives went doorknocking around Nuuk, Emrys Mar 2025 #26
I hope this is true, but even if it isn't FakeNoose Mar 2025 #34
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin has more details upthread: Emrys Mar 2025 #37
Makes me wish we had an actual human as the VP's first lady. Crowman2009 Mar 2025 #42

Captain Zero

(8,744 posts)
1. Why is Greenland even letting them
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:03 PM
Mar 2025

In the country?

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

BadgerMom

(3,378 posts)
27. I believe there's a US Space Force base in Greenland and they're landing there.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:57 AM
Mar 2025

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

montanacowboy

(6,678 posts)
2. Go Greenland!
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:03 PM
Mar 2025

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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

ToxMarz

(2,756 posts)
25. It seems mostly when I've seen him being out in public
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 11:38 PM
Mar 2025

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

(9,663 posts)
28. Why not? It's good enough for Eloon Muskovite.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:53 AM
Mar 2025

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

ananda

(34,414 posts)
39. They need a vulnerable innocent to hide behind...
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 03:11 PM
Mar 2025

and use to blame Greenlanders if the child gets upset.

 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
40. They won't even be leaving the frozen wasteland the military base is on.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 03:24 PM
Mar 2025

I hope the kid brought a gameboy or something.

Aristus

(71,647 posts)
35. Political Stepford wives may as well be.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:10 AM
Mar 2025

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.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,117 posts)
6. You know what, Usha if you want to immerse yourself
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:37 PM
Mar 2025

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

(40,163 posts)
38. Also she can learn some Danish - that would REALLY impress them
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 01:56 PM
Mar 2025

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


IcyPeas

(24,851 posts)
41. Culture? Trump is erasing all the culture from america. He hates culture.....
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 03:37 PM
Mar 2025

(Unless its white culture)

Escape

(375 posts)
7. I would have thought....
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 05:59 PM
Mar 2025

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.

VTderry

(76 posts)
11. And clerked for Kavanaugh, lest there be even a wisp of a belief that
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:43 PM
Mar 2025

she is less of a POS than her spouse.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
16. Kavanaugh
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:57 PM
Mar 2025

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......

Raven123

(7,538 posts)
14. She married JD Vance. Analyze that.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:50 PM
Mar 2025

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

Skittles

(169,536 posts)
17. someone told me he wasn't always as bad as he is now
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:16 PM
Mar 2025

but I imagine he has always been a fucking asshole

Dulcinea

(9,663 posts)
29. He's an angry white man with a huge chip on his shoulder.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:55 AM
Mar 2025

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

Bev54

(13,199 posts)
15. Is the Trump administration feeling the love yet?
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:53 PM
Mar 2025

This is the best they are going to get.

Cha

(316,755 posts)
20. Yeah, brilliant... IOW... "We don't want to
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:26 PM
Mar 2025

be a part of your Gaslit media Spectacle!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,818 posts)
23. Vance's team 'pleading with Greenland residents' to meet VP and wife
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:55 PM
Mar 2025

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

(59,729 posts)
24. They should have concentrated more on "charm" and less on "offensive."
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 11:17 PM
Mar 2025

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.”

Emrys

(8,928 posts)
26. Danish media also reported that desperate US representatives went doorknocking around Nuuk,
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 AM
Mar 2025

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

No takers. Not one.

FakeNoose

(40,163 posts)
34. I hope this is true, but even if it isn't
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:36 AM
Mar 2025

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

Go MGGA - Make Greenland Great Again

Crowman2009

(3,407 posts)
42. Makes me wish we had an actual human as the VP's first lady.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:47 PM
Mar 2025

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

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