U.S. Ambassador Excluded from Traditional Danish Celebration For the first time, the U.S. ambassador is not welcome at the traditional Rebild Festival, where the ties of friendship between the United States and Denmark are celebrated today. The reason is that the Municipality of Aalborg was only willing to maintain its financial support of 400,000 Danish kroner on the condition that no one appointed by President Donald Trump be invited. Aalborg’s mayor, Lasse Frimand Jensen, describes the situation as “a dilemma.” On the one hand, he says, it is important to preserve “good relations across the Atlantic.” “But on the other hand, we also want to speak out against the way Donald Trump and his administration have acted toward Denmark,” he told TV 2. The Rebild Festival is the world’s largest celebration of the United States’ Independence Day held outside the United States. —TV2

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