"It is unacceptable that the U.S. president doubts the efforts of allied soldiers in Afghanistan," she writes on Facebook.
Trump said in a recent interview with Fox News that the United States "never needed" its NATO allies and that the troops the countries contributed to the war in Afghanistan "stayed in the background, a little off the front lines."
"Many Danish soldiers lost their lives or were wounded. And Denmark is one of the NATO countries that has had the highest death toll per capita," Frederiksen continues.
44 Danish soldiers lost their lives in Afghanistan, writes Ritzau, citing the Danish Defense Ministry.
