According to Trump, the visit is about "friendliness" and that many in Greenland "wish to be properly protected and properly cared for", writes AP.
I think Greenland is going to be something that maybe exists in our future, says Trump on Monday.
During the visit on Thursday to Saturday, the US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and the American Energy Minister Chris Wright will participate. Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance, leads the company.
Waltz and Wright will, according to the White House, visit the American military base Pituffik Space Base, which previously was called Thulebasen.
Political Scientist: No Tourist Trip
However, there will be no meeting with the Greenlandic government.
But the US delegation's visit is not an innocent tourist trip, says Drude Dahlerup, professor emerita of political science at Stockholm University, to Dagens Nyheter.
Dahlerup sees similarities with the Greenland visit made by Donald Trump Jr in January. The trip was said to be a tourist trip, but turned out to be well-organized – according to Dahlerup to show an image of "the Greenlanders love Donald Trump".
I think it's exactly the same thing here. You don't plan any meetings with Greenlandic politicians, and call it a private trip. But everyone knows it's a lie, she says to DN.
I would go crazy if I were a Greenlandic politician.
"Unacceptable Way"
Greenland's acting Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede does not see the upcoming visit as private either. He writes on Facebook that Greenland is being treated in an unacceptable way, "not worthy of close friends and allies".
He believes that the international community must act.
The very aggressive American pressure on Greenlandic society is now so serious that it cannot get any bigger. It has not helped to stand united for Greenland, it has not helped to say no and the diplomatic attempt to establish a dialogue has been in vain. Now the international community must act, he says to the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq.
Greenland had parliamentary elections on March 11 and is now in the process of forming a new government. Only when it has taken office can a meeting with American representatives become possible, writes Múte Bourup Egede.
