Vice President JD Vance has shared a sweeping video montage chronicling his current go to to Greenland, the Danish territory President Donald Trump is proposing to take over, with lofty claims which might be already being picked aside by American social media customers.
“President Trump leads America with peace through strength, and that means showing strength when you have to,” Vance wrote Monday on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter, forward of the minute-long montage. “It’s time to bring security back to Greenland.”
The footage itself confirmed Vance visiting with U.S. troops on the Pituffik Area Base and was scored to key elements of Vance’s speech there Friday, by which he claimed Trump — who hasn’t dominated out utilizing army pressure to take the territory over — is “a president of peace.”
“Unfortunately, the story of Greenland over the past 20 years, when it comes to security, is that we’ve underinvested in the brave men and women who are doing a very hard job to keep all of us safe,” says Vance within the clip. “That has to change.”
The daring declare that Trump is thinking about peace hasn’t gone over easily on X, because the president just lately advised that the U.S. ought to “take over” Gaza and switch it into “the Riviera of the Middle East” — and is at present additionally proposing Canada’s annexation.
“JD Vance’s Greenland stunt is a reckless extension of Trump’s imperialist fantasies,” wrote one X consumer. “Bullying a Danish territory for ‘security’ while ignoring allies like Denmark, who’ve outdone the U.S. in Ukraine aid, is peak MAGA arrogance.”
“This isn’t strength,” they continued, “it’s a diplomatic disaster that isolates America.”
Trump first floated the concept in 2019, however has broached it much more severely on quite a few events throughout his second time period. Final week, he stated the U.S. will “go as far as we have to go” to amass the territory, prompting warranted pushback from its prime minister.
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“Don’t believe anything Trump or Vance say about Greenland,” wrote one X consumer Monday. “This isn’t about defending Greenland. It’s about American appropriation of the island’s mineral wealth, with much of it being unlocked because of climate change.”
Donald Trump Jr. appeared to state this quiet half out loud throughout his personal go to in January.
One other consumer puzzled how integral to U.S. nationwide safety Greenland could possibly be if Vance hadn’t talked about it publicly “even once” earlier than the election. Throughout his go to, Vance informed reporters, “We can’t just ignore this place. We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.”
The vice chairman is now listening to from U.S. voters via pissed off social media posts.
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