“And when I said, you know, ‘Why can't we allow people to come in from nice countries,' I'm trying to be nice. Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”

The millionaires in the crowd “chuckled”, the Times said.

Trump made his “shithole countries” remark in January 2018, in a White House meeting on immigration reform.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to the Washington Post, which cited aides briefed on the meeting.

Trump then “suggested that the US should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway [and] suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt that they help the US economically”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/trump-immigration-north-europe