U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one

No 1 wants to speech to Usha Vance—at slightest nary 1 successful Greenland.

US officials person reportedly been traveling astir the Danish-controlled territory looking for locals who wanted to person a sojourn from the Second Lady, according to a study from Danish TV 2.

Greenlanders' response? No thanks.

Residents aren't the lone ones snubbing the Second Lady up of her high-profile sojourn to the island; Tupilak Travel, which is based successful Greenland's superior city, Nuuk, initially said it would big Usha Vance, but pulled retired connected Thursday.

In a station connected Facebook, the institution said that the US Consulate called and asked if it wanted the visit, and the institution initially said yes, but past backed out.

“After person consideration, however, we person present informed the consulate that we bash not privation her visit, arsenic we cannot judge the underlying docket and volition not beryllium portion of the property amusement that, quite, of course, comes with it. No acknowledgment to bully visit… Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders," the institution said.

The cancellation comes connected the aforesaid time that Vice President JD Vance announced that helium would articulation his wife's upcoming travel to Greenland.

“There was truthful overmuch excitement astir Usha’s sojourn to Greenland this Friday, that I decided that I didn’t privation her to person each that amusive by herself, and truthful I’m going to articulation her,” Vance said successful a video posted to X.

Vance, the Second Lady, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Energy Secretary Christ Wright are scheduled to depart for Greenland connected Friday, though those plans could alteration by the clip the delegation departs.

The U.S. delegation was besides scheduled to be the Avannaata Qimusserua, 1 of the world's largest dog-sledding events, but that sojourn has been cancelled arsenic well, according to USA Today.

As it presently stands, the American visitors volition lone beryllium visiting the U.S. Space Force Base astatine Pituffik.

Greenlanders and Danish authorities aren't pleased astir the trip. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen accused the US of exerting "unacceptable pressure" connected Greenland done its planned visit.

“I person to accidental that it is unacceptable unit being placed connected Greenland and Denmark successful this situation. And it is unit that we volition resist,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcasters DR and TV2 connected Tuesday. “You cannot marque a backstage sojourn with authoritative representatives from different country, erstwhile the acting Greenlandic authorities has made it precise wide that they bash not privation a sojourn astatine this time,”

Frederiksen went connected to accidental the US delegation's accomplishment is "clearly not a sojourn that is astir what Greenland needs oregon wants."

“President Trump is serious. He wants Greenland. Therefore, [this visit] cannot beryllium seen independently of thing else,” Frederiksen said.

Donald Trump has repeatedly said helium wants to bargain Greenland oregon get it done different means, including imaginable subject action.

Thanks to clime alteration driven by quality burning of fossil fuels, caller shipping corridors are opening up successful the Arctic Circle arsenic oversea crystal melts. Trade routes betwixt Asia and Europe oregon Asia and the U.S. are astir 40 percent shorter done the Arctic than by mode of the Suez oregon Panama Canals, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.

Currently, lone 5 countries person territory successful the Arctic Circle: Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark, by mode of the semiautonomous Greenland, and the U.S. via Alaska. If the U.S. controls Greenland, it would beryllium a large enlargement of the nation's power implicit Arctic shipping routes.

Trump has gone truthful acold arsenic to accidental that the land is "very, precise important" for U.S. “military security."

In summation to its imaginable subject and economical strategical benefits, the Arctic whitethorn besides person arsenic of yet untapped substance resources. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Arctic holds 13 percent of undiscovered lipid resources and 30 percent of undiscovered earthy gas, chiefly each offshore.

Greenland itself is affluent with uncommon world minerals, which are indispensable components successful the accumulation of cellphones, batteries, and different user technologies.