Jd Vance, Trump and Greenland
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The buyer, a Trump appointee during his first term, denies any political motive—calling the $1.9 million deal purely market-driven.
Vance will spend most of his time in the official home of the vice president, which is on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.
The vice-president says Russia and China have increased footprints in the area and the world cannot "bury our heads in the sand".
“Trump’s talk of annexation and the visit of the Vances has united Greenlanders in defiance, with Greenlanders rallying together to protest,” Dwayne Ryan Menezes, director of the UK-based think tank Polar Research and Policy Initiative, told CNN in an email.
The vice president’s animosity toward U.S. allies was blatant in newly revealed group chat messages on Houthi strikes.
J.D. Vance shot to fame with his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, but the vice president’s net worth in 2025 proves his “hillbilly” days (however exaggerated they may have been in the first place) are far behind him,
The buyer of Vice President J.D. Vance’s Alexandria, Virginia, home briefly served in the first Trump administration and has been active in Washington, D.C., circles for a while.
Analysts have raised questions about views expressed by Vice President JD Vance on a text chain with other officials before military strikes.