Usha Vance, US officials to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for US ownership

ABC News ^ | Alexandra Hutzler

[hardspunned]

Second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation traveling to Greenland this week, after President Donald Trump's repeated statements that the U.S. should own and control the semiautonomous Danish territory.

Vance's office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one dedicated to learning about Greenlandic culture with stops at historical sties and its national dogsled race.

[hardspunned]

Usha? She’s a nice lady but is she really necessary?

[BigEdLB]

Don’t underestimate her

[cpdiii]

I much look forward to the day in 4 years when she is The First Lady of President Vance.

[BigEdLB]

And.. This trip gives her experience...

[HighSierra5]

I’ll take her over our former second “gentleman “. What a dufus.

[lee martell]

Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egg is already complaining, because, before Mrs. Vance and son visit on Thursday, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz will be visiting too.
“This can no longer be characterized as a harmless visit by a politician’s wife!”

[simpson96]

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[SeekAndFind]

Let’s try this...

The average Greenlander’s yearly income is about $57,000.

We waste hundreds of billions of dollars on government waste and fraud ( see DOGE ).

Let’s say, in exchange for acquiring Greenland, we offer each of the 55,000 Greenlanders $1 Million. That would be $4 million for a family of 4.

That would amount to about $55 Billion. Heck, that’s the entire budget of USAID.

For perspective, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 Billion.

There’s a precedent. The United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in gold. The primary motivation was strategic: the U.S. wanted to secure its interests in the Caribbean and ensure stability during World War I. The islands were seen as valuable for protecting shipping routes and preventing other powers, like Germany, from gaining a foothold in the region.

For perspective, The $25 million in gold from 1917 would be worth approximately $616 million in today’s money when adjusted for inflation. In 1917, the U.S. GDP was approximately $60 billion.

[4Runner]

In exchange, let the Danes have the island of Puerto Rico and all of its inhabitants, who firmly believe from birth they are gods and goddesses, and are an absolute GIFT to the American people. Spit.

[VAFreedom]

well, Greenland better have a large cache of previously undiscovered vibraniums.

[4Runner]

Trump might very well get a third term. So you may have to wait a bit longer. There might be a Constitutional Convention enabling a two-separated-terms-as-President to have a chance at being elected again for a second 4 years during his 2d term, if his first term did not provide him that opportunity.

It is unheard of for there to have been such a thing as Trump 45 and then 47, with another Presidency stuck in between. That makes Trump just like a new President all over again.

The Constitution needs to be amended to address this rare term-of-office conflict, as it currently does not do so.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’d guess she was told this was purely an easy, fun diplomatic trip and had no idea this would become a big news story. Oh well, she’s married to a guy who is planning a presidential run so she’d better get used to it.

[Veto!]

Usha is a brilliant lawyer. clerked for Supreme Court Justice Roberts.
Plus she is charming and likable. Who better to start negotiations?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Guarantee the Danes 20 years of zero tariffs in the US market. And offer each citizen of Greenland - only about enough people of fill an NFL stadium - $1 million each. That’s every man, woman and child. The alternative is peaceful but non-negotiable annexation. I’d bet they’d take the offer.

[Bratch]

Usha Vance

Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance (née Chilukuri; born January 6, 1986) is an American lawyer who has been the second lady of the United States since 2025, being married to Vice President JD Vance. She is the first Asian American and first Hindu American second lady. A former trial lawyer, she has also worked with justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Vance was born in San Diego County, California, to Telugu Indian immigrant parents and raised in an upper-middle-class suburb. She graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in history and from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. After law school, she served as a law clerk for several senior federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and Judge Amul Thapar.

In 2019, Vance was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and she subsequently worked for a leading law firm handling civil litigation and appeals in cases involving higher education, local government, entertainment, and technology. She resigned from her law firm job in July 2024.

At the 2024 Republican National Convention, Vance delivered the introductory address for her husband, JD Vance. She often traveled with him to his vice-presidential campaign events, occasionally appearing onstage. The couple has three children.

Career

Vance served as a law clerk for Judge Amul Thapar of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2013 to 2014, Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2014 to 2015, and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts from 2017 to 2018.^[40][41][42] During her clerkship at the Supreme Court, she was assigned to work on Azar v. Garza, a case regarding a juvenile undocumented immigrant in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who sought to have an abortion.^[43]

Vance worked for the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson for its San Francisco and Washington, D.C. offices as an associate for almost six years, handling civil litigation and appeals in cases involving higher education, local government, entertainment and technology, until July 2024, when she resigned "to focus on caring for our family".^[44][45][46] Among her clients were the Paramount Pictures, Regents of the University of California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and a division of The Walt Disney Company.^[47][48][49] Vance previously worked as a summer associate at Williams & Connolly, Taft Stettinius & Hollister, and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz.^[50] She was admitted to the District of Columbia, California and Ohio bar.^[51][45]

Vance has served on the board of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association and as secretary of the board of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.^[52]

[DLfromthedesert]

I love our Second Lady. She has the most beautiful smile.u

[ladyjane]

Yes, we purchased the US Virgin islands and for years the British Virgin Islands were much safer and better. They’re both pretty bad right now but BVI is still preferable.