President Trump has made no secret of his designs on Greenland, repeating threats to acquire the territory through a financial transaction or military force.

Vance on Friday spoke of this idea more as a security alliance than an annexation. That doesn’t align with Trump.

J.D. Vance doubled down on the administration's interest in acquiring Greenland while at the Pituffik Space Base as Donald Trump argued the U.S. "can't" do without it.