Breaking News: Angry Greenlanders blast JD Vance and Trump’s claim, points out Elon Musk’s cuts already hits them

Angry Greenlanders have pointed out that Donald Trump’s right hand guy does not appear to understand what his other right hand man is doing.

While US Vice President JD Vance declared on Friday that America wants to help Greenland, it has been revealed that last month his fellow Trump top adviser, entrepreneur Elon Musk, abruptly cancelled essential US support for business training here.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha went to a US base here on Friday, in a cloud of controversy, to reaffirm President Trump’s astonishing desire to seize control of the island from Denmark.

Failing to completely rule out previous staggering suggestions America could use military force to seize Greenland – saying only that Trump ‘doesn’t think it is going to be necessary’ – he insisted the US would be good for the islanders while ‘Denmark has underinvested in Greenland’.

Yet worried Greenlanders – who have already marched in their thousands against a US takeover – pointed out that far from increasing investment in Greenland, the Trump administration has already reduced it.

The Greenland Business School, in the small capital Nuuk, had been promised a share £80,000 out of a total US aid package of £350,000, agreed in 2021, to help fund training in entrepreneurship for young students.

Manager for business school projects Nukappiaraq Kristiansen said there had been widespread interest, with teachers hired and students signed up to study, with American state-funded organisation USAID picking up the bill.

But then Donald Trump took office in January – his close aide Musk, owner of Tesla, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – was appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency.

And one of his first acts was to virtually close down USAID, with Trump and Musk denouncing it for wasting money and doing nothing for America.

As a result, the promised funding for Greenland was suddenly cancelled.

Greenland Business School’s Mr Kristiansen said he was devastated by the shock cancellation, adding: ‘This means the projects that we should have started all come to nothing. And it affects many, both the teachers and students.’

Local documentary-maker Dida Heilmann, 50, who has recently had traditional Inuit facial and chest tattoos amid a resurgence in interest in Greenland’s native culture, was contemptuous of America’s actions.

Miss Heilmann said: ‘Donald Trump and the others just use dirty tricks as they try to take over Greenland.

‘And they would be worse than the Danes have been.

‘They are not respecting us, they just think about money and want to have our minerals.

‘They don’t think about our values, or us as people.’

The National Museum of Greenland in Nuuk has also found itself part of the ongoing fightback against the US – with staff there already outraged by a visit in January from the president’s son Donald Trump Jnr.

They complained he spent only a few minutes inside, solely interested in the gruesome mummies of Inuit women and a baby dating from the 15th century.

This week they hit back, it emerged, when Usha Vance’s staff asked if she could visit – and staff said she would not be welcome. Plans for the Vance’s to tour Greenland outside the US base were scrapped soon after.

Denmark, which oversees Greenland’s defence, foreign affairs, and justice, expressed dissatisfaction with Vance’s claim that the Danes offered inadequate protection. However, Vance failed to mention that Danish troops are currently stationed at Pituffik.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said yesterday of Vance’s criticisms: “Many accusations and allegations have been made.” Of course, we are open to criticism.

‘But, to be quite honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it is presented. This is not how you communicate with your close allies.

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