Several senior Trump administration officials are set to travel to Greenland next week as the Arctic island coveted by the US president is in talks to form a new government and holds local elections.
Mike Waltz, the US national security adviser, Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and the army and energy secretaries will travel to Greenland in what is being billed as “a private visit” from Thursday until Saturday, according to people with knowledge of the trip.
A source familiar with the visit confirmed that Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright would visit Pituffik Space Base, the US military installation on Greenland. Danish and Greenlandic officials have said they are open to an increased US presence on the island, but not to it being taken over.