Why Trump is so obsessed with Scandinavia (Opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. Recall that last year Trump was reported to have complained in an Oval Office conversation that so many Haitians and people from what he called “shithole countries” want to move to the United States. One witness said, “They wanted to show that President Trump is right about Sweden.” For the President, the large-scale immigration to his Nordic faux-ancestral homeland was a source of concern. Former Prime Minister Carl Bildt wrote “There certainly are countries … where the judiciary is little more than an instrument of the arbitrary powers of the ruling strongman,” noting, “Sweden is most certainly not one of those countries.” Trump seems torn between slack-jawed admiration and visceral disappointment with Nordic nations. When touring the devastation after the horrific California fires last year, Trump said the President of Finland had explained to him that “we are a forest nation,” but don’t have many forest fires because Finns spend a lot of time raking the forests.
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