Both the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, as well as lots of Greenlanders themselves, have objected to the visit.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of the new government of Greenland, said “We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.”
The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, said JD Vance’s trip: “is clearly not a visit that Greenland wants or needs”.
A poll conducted in January said that 85% of people living in Greenland don’t want it to be a part of the US.
Other polls suggest that most Greenlanders want to be fully independent from Denmark, too.
