"We should have more people from places like Norway"

[meadowlark5]

Why on earth would someone from Norway want to move to a country where they'll have to pay exorbitant prices for healthcare, sky-high tuition to send their kids to school and really no system or program to allow them to retire with some quality of life left to enjoy.

Not to mention, a country governed by a lunatic and his band of thieves.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. My instant reaction when I heard it ...

Nobody in their right mind, not EVER

[BigmanPigman]

39. My reaction was...

can I move to Norway? PLEASE!!!!! I had to leave the US in 2004/5 or else I would have ended up in a Loony Bin or a jail for any number of anti- Bush actions.

[Bradshaw3]

2. Spot on!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Have you noticed the thousands of tall blonde people wearing fancy sweaters

trying to sneak into the United States?

Me neither.

[Historic NY]

5. +1

[tanyev]

4. Exactly. To someone in Norway, the U.S. looks like a shithole.

Even more so in the last year.

[lpbk2713]

6. How does one say go f**k yourself in Norwegian?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Faen ta deg.

[lpbk2713]

11. DU is always a good resource.

It never lets me down.

[G_j]

12. Thank you!

[LeftInTX]

8. The media needs to interview a bunch of Norwegians

With their Nordic features and cool knit sweaters saying, "We don't want to go to that America shithole country".

[meadowlark5]

13. That would be funny!

The patriotic, flag waving good 'murican deplorables would be so outraged

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Norwegian media seem amused.

They speculate that PM Solberg must have made a good impression, but:

The statement has been reproduced in several major media in the United States. On social media, the individual who asked the question of why in the world, Norwegians, with a free health care service, would like to move to the United States.

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/e1P5y4/Trump-etter-motet-med-Solberg-Vil-ha-farre-immigranter-fra-drittland-og-flere-fra-Norge

[whathehell]

51. Just sayin'

We don't need to insult our own country because Ignorant Chump insulted others.

[Hoyt]

9. There are white wing groups in Norway too. They might like Trump and red states.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Maybe Trump would like to take Anders Breivik,

the white supremacist who shot a bunch of people a few years ago and is now in prison.

[Ken Burch]

20. Y'know...you never see Anders Breivik and Alex Jones in the SAME photograph...

[VOX]

47. I'm sure that the NRA and #45's supporters think that guy is a hero.

Remember, it was mostly kids killed at a Labour Party youth organization summer camp, some as young as 14. He killed 69 people there, and eight with a bomb elsewhere.

And Breivik's far-far-right political beliefs place him squarely in Trump's camp -- he'd fit right in.

[Cha]

10. So says president shithole

[longship]

14. It's Normay he's talking about, not Norway.

Normay is a hell hole. Norway is the good place.
🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴

[rurallib]

16. you are right - glad you pointed this out

[Orange Free State]

33. Normay is the country where

They drink lots of Cofveve.

[Heartstrings]

35. Bigly amounts!

Many people have told me this. Normay is now on my bucket list to visit!

[Vogon_Glory]

17. Thats about what I was thinking

The average Northwestern European (including ALL of Scandinavia) is better off than most middle-class Americans, and has been for several decades now.

In point of fact, many of us vote against the Republican Party and their wealthy backers because we fear that they want to turn the USA into a third-world sh$$-t-hole through their policies.

[yuiyoshida]

18. lets face it, Trump hates minorities...

He is after all a WHITE SUPREMACIST. Of course he wants more white people. The trouble is, most everyone on this planet hates his guts.

[Sam McGee]

21. I'm moving to Norway . . .

. . . check out these bodacious Norwegian babes who slipped on their bikinis when the temperature got up to 35 degrees!!!

Do you suppose they let dirty old men like me in?

[hurple]

22. I think

This was "dog whistle" for aryan.

[tclambert]

37. Surely you're not suggesting that the President of the United States is a racist!

[hurple]

45. No

I think he's an actual dues paying, card carrying Nazi.

[DesertRat]

24. Good luck with that, Dotard

Link to tweet

[Marty Marzipan]

25. If any Norwegian wants to emigrate to the U.S.....

... can I take your place in Norway? I can learn Norwegian!

[Straw Man]

49. That sounds good.

Kind of a "citizen exchange program."

[PatrickforO]

26. Funny, my wife and I were thinking of immigrating TO Norway!

Much less stress. Healthcare. A government organized around the needs of people.

However, we DO have something the Norwegians and other states in Europe do not. A while ago, I had the privilege of attending an Economic Development luncheon that featured Katty Kay as the keynote speaker. For those who may not know, Kay is the anchor of BBC America News. Her keynote was brilliant. It really was very thoughtful.

One of the points I remember her making is that we've done two things very well. First, Trump has been very good at getting NATO countries to cough up money up to 2% of their GDP to support the alliance. That's good, because as Pat Schroeder, an elder and highly esteemed stateswoman from Colorado (used to be a US Representative) used to say, we pay for the defense of all these other countries and it doesn't leave us money for programs that help Americans. She was right then, and is certainly right now, if you look at the sheer magnitude of our military/national security spending in relation to everyone else's.

Secondly, and most germane to this post, she said that one of the things we have going for us here in the US (in spite of these xenophobes) is we're really a melting pot, or salad bowl, or whatever metaphor you want to use. In plain English, we do assimilation pretty well - not perfectly by a long shot, but pretty well. Specifically, she said that Muslims in America are Americans first, then Muslims, where in Europe, because of the failure of these more homogenous cultures to assimilate immigrants, they consider themselves Muslims first and Europeans second.

Below is a link that exposes the 'dark side' of Norwegian culture for minorities such as the Sami and Romani, as well as Muslims.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-07-24/is-life-in-norway-as-happy-as-its-cracked-up-to-be

[erronis]

38. I think that "melting-pot" analogy is written by the winners (and survivors) of the crimes

That were inflicted against the original natives and subsequent non-English and northern European immigrants. There hasn't been an ethic/cultural/racial group that hasn't been targeted by verbal and frequently physical abuse by the groups that have already been established.

I think the "melting-pot" phrase was a cute term invented in the feel-good 50's to help cover up our mutual atrocities.

Having lived and worked in a few countries in Europe I think the assimilation and cohabitation has been pretty damned good. Don't forget all of the people of color (and others) that left the US in the 1900's to thrive in Paris, London, Berlin.

Humans are not far removed from their tree-living tribal roots. We tend to prefer similarly looking, thinking cohorts. And we should not fight this tendency but use it to make the fabric of our societies more interesting.

[muntrv]

27. Norway has universal health care, so why come here?

[mikeysnot]

28. Norwegian Punk Rock

NSFW if you speak the language...

[madaboutharry]

29. I have been to Norway.

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The Norwegians love living in Norway. They are very patriotic, they love their King, and they love the Norwegian flag- which the put on everything. They have a great culture and live in the most beautiful country in the world. The last place they would want to move to is America.

[SunSeeker]

43. Norway is not more beautiful than Kauai.

We do have that going for us...

[madaboutharry]

44. That is debatable!

The Fjords are really something!

[Butterflylady]

30. My husband and I asked the very same question.

Then we both said they have much better than we do, why would they want to leave.

[bhikkhu]

31. I've been to Norway

My overall impression is that it is a beautiful, prosperous, clean, well-run nation. Most of the people there don't want to go anywhere else, certainly not to a poorly-run shithole with approximately 60 million angry-idiot voters.

[getagrip_already]

32. Norway doesn't send us their best .. We need incentives so they do...

They send us the short, dark haired people without huge bank accounts. Rump can fix this! We need rules that say immigrants can't have black or brown hair, can't be under 6' if male or 5'6 if female, and must own shares in trump company.

(that was snark for the ironically deprived).

[MFM008]

34. they dont even want to vacation here

.................................

[Stellar]

36. Why doesn't he move his monkey ass and his family to Norway..

... since ever he loves it so.

[wishstar]

40. They don't want him, but maybe Russia will

[IluvPitties]

41. What this motherfucker is suggesting is not funny.

[Skittles]

42. my grandparents were Norwegian

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they would have DETESTED a sick, racist asshole like Trump

[MoonchildCA]

46. Uffda...

[JI7]

48. does he know that he is fucking hated in Norway ?

[spanone]

50. K&R...

[loyalsister]

52. eugenics language

The "nordic superior race" was the US version of the genetic ideal in the early 1900s

[Lifelong Protester]

53. My thoughts exactly, meadowlark5