United States President Donald Trump has said Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the US because he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Telegraph reports.\n<\/p>\n
The president made the declaration while addressing his supporters at a rally in Michigan on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
Trump, in the attack on the country, said,\u00a0\u201cFrankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually.\n<\/p>\n
I will welcome immigrants from Denmark but not from Norway because \u200cI didn\u2019t get the Nobel Prize, so I don\u2019t want anybody from Norway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has lobbied for the accolade for years and previously pressured the Nobel committee, a five-person team appointed by Norway\u2019s parliament, to recognise his peacemaking efforts.\n<\/p>\n
There was no indication the US administration had adopted a new policy on immigrants from either Scandinavian country.<\/p>\n
Trump also repeated his claim that he had ended eight wars, and said he told his wife, Melania, that \u201cit\u2019ll be a great honour to get the Nobel Peace Prize\u201d before the announcement was made.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to Navi Pillay, a South African former UN human rights chief, Ms Pillay\n<\/p>\n
She was recognised for being \u201cinstrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted\u201d, according to J\u00f8rgen Watne Frydnes, the Nobel committee chairman.\n<\/p>\n
Trump, however, called Pillay \u201ca woman that nobody ever heard of\u201d and said he asked: \u201cWhat about me? Do they do two of them?\u201d <\/p>\n
The US president previously said the failure to give him the peace prize had been a \u201cdisgraceful and embarrassing\u201d decision and an \u201cindelible stain\u201d on Norway.\n<\/p>\n
Reacting, the Norwegian foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told the national broadcaster NRK on Monday that Trump was aware of the body\u2019s fairness\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe 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,\u201d Eide said.\n<\/p>\n
Also, last year, Norway\u2019s prime minister, Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re, explained to Trump that it was an independent committee that awarded the prize, not the Norwegian government.<\/p>\n
After he did not win this year, Mr Trump replied, \u201cThe Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Ms Pillay, the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa, poked fun at Mr Trump\u2019s desire to win the prize. After learning of her victory, she walked into a room of applause at the Nuremberg court and said: \u201cIf you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Last year, Venezuela\u2019s opposition leader, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, was awarded the prize and also received a barrage of criticism from Mr Trump.\n<\/p>\n
She later gave him her medal during a meeting at the White House. She said it was in recognition of his commitment to her country\u2019s freedom.\n<\/p>\n
The Nobel committee later clarified that once a Nobel Prize had been announced, it could not be revoked, shared or transferred.\n <\/p>\n
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