WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has defended a planned visit by his delegation to Greenland, dismissing criticism from Denmark and insisting the trip is a gesture of goodwill rather than a provocation. Greenland’s prime minister and Denmark’s foreign minister both denounced the visit, announced for this week by Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance. “This is friendliness, not provocation,” Trump told reporters at the end of a cabinet meeting. Trump insisted that the visit was at the invitation of Greenland, where…