US President Donald Trump has stated that Norwegian immigrants are unwelcome in America because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
The president made this statement on Monday while speaking to his supporters at a rally in Michigan.
In his criticism of the country, Trump remarked, “Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has actually turned into a shithouse country.
I’ll welcome immigrants from Denmark, but not from Norway, since I didn’t get the Nobel Prize so I don’t want anyone from Norway.”
For years, Trump has campaigned for the award and previously put pressure on the Nobel committee a five-member panel appointed by Norway’s parliament to acknowledge his peacemaking efforts.
Nothing suggested that the US administration had introduced a new policy regarding immigrants from either Scandinavian nation.
Trump also reiterated his assertion that he had ended eight wars, and he said he told his wife, Melania, that “it’ll be a great honor to get the Nobel Peace Prize” before the announcement was made.
Earlier this month, the Nobel committee gave the peace prize to Navi Pillay, a South African former UN human rights chief. Ms. Pillay
According to Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Nobel committee, she was honored for being “instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted.”
Trump, however, described Pillay as “a woman that nobody ever heard of” and said he asked, “What about me? Do they do two of them?”
The US president had previously described the failure to award him the peace prize as a “disgraceful and embarrassing” decision and an “indelible stain” on Norway.
In response, Norway’s foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told the national broadcaster NRK on Monday that Trump was aware of the body’s fairness.
“He knows very well that the Nobel committee is independent. We have reminded them of that, if anyone is wondering, and that is still the case,” Eide said.
In addition, Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, made it clear to Trump last year that an independent committee, rather than the Norwegian government, was the body that awarded the prize.
Following his failure to win this year, Mr. Trump responded, “The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization.”
Ms. Pillay, who became the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa, made light of Mr. Trump’s wish to win the prize. Upon hearing of her win, she entered a room filled with applause at the Nuremberg court and remarked, “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump.”
The previous year, Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, received the prize and was also hit with a wave of criticism from Mr. Trump.
During a meeting at the White House, she later handed him her medal. According to her, it was meant to honor his dedication to freedom in her country.
The Nobel committee subsequently made clear that a Nobel Prize, once announced, could not be revoked, shared, or transferred.
