The widely reviled veep and his wife may not see much of the island they\u2019d like to annex, but the US military base will be lovely at this time of year<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a Gerard Butler movie called Greenland, which \u2013 via a series of cataclysmic events handled incredibly Butlerishly \u2013 ends with Gerard cocooned in a remote secure bunker in Greenland. As the week has worn on, this has increasingly become the mood of today\u2019s supposedly super-fun tourist trip to Greenland by the second lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and her husband, the vice-president, JD Vance. Who, come to think of it, does actually look like the Cabbage Patch Gerard Butler.<\/p>\n
Anyway: Greenland. Like I say, the trip has evolved this week both in style and substance. Originally, it was announced that the second lady was going to take one of her sons, immerse herself in various local events \u2013 she\u2019s apparently simply fascinated by Greenland\u2019s culture \u2013 and attend the famous Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race. No more. Now, it\u2019s her husband instead of her son, and the Vances are only going to a military facility. This is a little bit like announcing you\u2019re travelling to Kyoto to see the blossoms, then \u201crecalibrating\u201d your trip so that all you\u2019ll actually be taking in is a tour of the storage facility where they keep the most boring documents from the signing of the 1997 climate protocol. Extremely important, no doubt \u2013 and extremely, extremely boring. Or as the White House has chosen to characterise this shift in emphasis: \u201cThe Second Lady is proud to visit the Pituffik Space Base with her husband to learn more about Arctic security and the great work of the Space Base.\u201d It is unclear at time of writing if Pituffik has spa facilities. Presumably it\u2019s got something of a year-round apr\u00e8s-ski vibe.<\/p>\n
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n
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