NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.

US Vice President JD Vance has now said he will join his wife Usha on her highly contentious visit to Greenland later this week, a decision that added fuel to the diplomatic fire while revealing major changes to the United States’ itinerary on the Arctic island.

Amid President Trump’s push to take over the world’s largest island, the administration says it is sending the vice president to visit a military base there.

A high-powered US delegation arrived in Greenland as Trump talks about acquiring the island. 'Do you think we can do without it?,' Trump said. 'We can't.'

The agreement was reached ahead of Vice President JD Vance 's arrival on the Arctic island on Friday. He and second lady Usha Vance are expected to visit the Pituffik Space Base on a scaled-back version of a trip that had angered officials in Greenland and Denmark.

Vice President JD Vance took a page out of Hamlet and charged that something is rotten in the state of Denmark in a short video announcing his visit to Greenland.

Vance traveled to Greenland—a Danish-controlled territory—with his wife, Usha, and national security adviser and Signalgate catalyst Mike Waltz, among others. No one in Greenland wanted to meet the group, forcing them to cancel all their events with locals, including a historic tour and a dogsled race.

J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation visiting Greenland, after Trump's statements that the U.S. should own the Danish territory.

Vice President JD Vance will travel to Greenland this week, joining his wife on a visit to the massive island President Donald Trump wants the United States to own. Trump has unnerved Greenland's leaders by offering to purchase it from Denmark − without ruling out military action or economic coercion.