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The country of 5.2 million people that seldom makes global headlines awoke Friday to the news that Trump wanted to have more immigrants from Norway, rather than Haiti and countries in Africa that he disparaged with a vulgar term.
The comments came after Trump met Wednesday with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Washington. His remarks were seen in Oslo as racially charged and sharply at odds with Norwegian values of inclusivity.
"This says a lot about what Trump thinks it means to be an American. It is more about ethnicity than shared values," said Hilde Restad, an associate professor in international affairs and a former U.S. resident.
She added that Norwegians generally didn't want "to be flattered by this U.S. president in this way."
Trump partly denies, also defends vulgar immigrant comments
[The Canadian Press]
The Canadian PressJanuary 12, 2018
Trump partly denies, also defends vulgar immigrant comments
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday offered a partial denial in public but privately defended his extraordinary remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries a day earlier. Trump said he was only expressing what many people think but won't say about immigrants from economically depressed countries, according to a person who spoke to the president as criticism of his comments ricocheted around the globe.
Trump spent Thursday evening making a flurry of calls to friends and outside advisers to judge their reaction to the tempest, said the confidant, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to disclose a private conversation. Trump wasn't apologetic about his inflammatory remarks and denied he was racist, instead, blaming the media for distorting his meaning, the confidant said.
Now...look at all the people who are running for office he has empowered...like David Duke..and Joe Arpeggio...and Roy Moore...
Trump has taken their mask off....
Oooo! Like the Death Eaters?
According to the article, 1,114 Norwegians emigrated to the United States while 1,603 Americans emigrated to Norway.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/apos-d-prefer-country-trump-114653798.html
^ I didn't know that, but now it makes me wonder how many immigrants (from all nations) actually go back home when they discover that the American Dream is reserved for a select few, especially when they see how many Americans aren't living it. That's probably why so many immigrants have been crossing the border into Canada, sometimes with the help of American agents. Did you know that there are reports of agents driving immigrants to safe and unmonitored crossings so they can get into Canada?
I looked into that once, mostly because I really like Montreal, it didn't seem to be too burdensome to me. Of course I wasn't looking to bring tons of freight in with me. The immigration lady was very polite and helpful.
In the end it was the weather that made me run home to Texas.
