EXCLUSIVE — Vice President JD Vance told the Washington Examiner that the public hostility exhibited by European leaders regarding President Donald Trump’s demands for Greenland is simply “posturing,” and that they’ve expressed more “reasonable” responses to the president’s plan in closed-door discussions.

The vice president sat with the Washington Examiner for a half-hour interview while flying from Toledo, Ohio, to Minneapolis on Thursday morning. While speaking in Toledo, Vance largely reiterated the administration’s points that acquiring Greenland would boost American national security interests and its critical minerals supply chain.