US Vice President JD Vance tells Europe to take President Donald Trump “seriously” on Greenland, after Washington floated buying the territory from Denmark and even taking military action to acquire it.
“I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously,” Vance tells a briefing at the White House when asked about Greenland.
Separately during the briefing, Vance doubles down on the Trump administration’s description of a federal immigration agent shooting dead a woman in Minneapolis as being in “self-defense,” a characterization disputed by local authorities.
“Ramming an ICE officer with your car, that’s what justifies being shot,” says Vance, when asked if the shooting was justified. “It’s not a good thing, by the way, but when you force somebody to engage in self-defense, it’s almost a preposterous question.”
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