President Trump called Norway a “sh*thouse country” at a Michigan rally after another Nobel Peace Prize snub, and said he does not want immigrants from Norway.
Speaking Sunday afternoon in Port Huron, Trump escalated his criticism of the Scandinavian nation that hosts the Nobel committee in Oslo. He tied the attack directly to being passed over for the prize and went further, saying Norwegian immigrants are unwelcome.
The remarks came less than two weeks before the November 3 midterms, at a rally in an area that gave him 66 percent of the vote in 2024. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide answered the next day by stressing the committee’s independence.
Daily Mail reporting captured Trump’s blunt line: “I’m not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a sh*thouse country, actually.”
"I'm not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a sh*thouse country, actually,"
He left little doubt about the motive. “Because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize... So I don’t want anybody from Norway,” Trump said. Earlier this month he had already called the failure to award him the prize an “indelible stain” on Norway.
Eide told national broadcaster NRK on Monday that Trump understands how the process works.
"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."
There is no indication the Trump administration is adopting any new official policy on Norwegian immigrants. The comments stayed in the realm of political rhetoric at the rally, not a published rule change.
Trump also linked recent unrest in France to immigration while making the Norway points, keeping the border-and-sovereignty theme in front of the Michigan crowd.
The Port Huron event was not only about Oslo. Trump trained fire on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is vying for an open Michigan seat against Republican former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed had campaigned in Detroit on Saturday with former President Barack Obama. Trump cast the race in stark national-security terms and invoked Michigan native Todd Beamer, who fought the hijackers on United Flight 93 on 9/11.
"I'm here to keep a jihadist, Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator,"
He continued: “Twenty-five years later, Michigan needs to stand up and fight, just like Todd did, to stop a jihadist from walking into the Capitol.” Trump also claimed El-Sayed “would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go in the Senate.”
Those labels are Trump’s characterizations. Members of Congress, including Muslim lawmakers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, do not face higher screening than colleagues when they display member pins for Capitol Police.
Trump said protesters at his rallies are “paid $250” to cause trouble and brushed off an interruption with “I had to do it.” He argued his event was better attended than Democratic gatherings and pointed to a New York Times average showing his approval at a record-low 36 percent, with 61 percent disapproving, numbers he treated as noise against a friendly local electorate.
On trade, he told the crowd a dispute with Canada would be resolved soon. “We’ll have that settled pretty soon. They’re willing to give us anything at this moment,” he said, while speakers reiterated the case for higher tariffs on Canadian goods.
Rapper Nicki Minaj joined him on stage as a prominent celebrity supporter. She told the audience she would back him again if he ran.
"President Trump, it is an honor to stand with you every single time, and I will continue to support you forever and ever. If you run again, I will support you again."
Trump answered with crude stage banter, saying Minaj had a “beautiful a**” and joking that he had “looked at” GOP Ohio Senate candidate Jon Husted’s “a**” before adding he had “never done that with a man before.”
The Nobel committee sits in Oslo. Trump has made the prize a recurring grievance, first calling the snub an “indelible stain” and then sharpening the language in Port Huron. Eide’s reply stayed on process: the committee is independent, and Norway has said so clearly.
Michigan’s open Senate seat now sits inside a national midterm calendar with November 3 close at hand. Trump used the Port Huron stop to fuse the Nobel complaint, immigration hard lines, the El-Sayed race, and Canada trade into one afternoon’s message.
Voters can weigh the rhetoric against the record. Allies who duck accountability for border chaos and soft-on-threat politics rarely enjoy the same scrutiny they demand of everyone else.
