Iowa Voters Laugh At Joni Ernst Defending Trump By Saying He’s Standing Up For Norway
Over the past few days, the White House has been embroiled in a firestorm of controversy over Shithole-gate. As you may recall, during an immigration meeting last Thursday , President Donald Trump not only called immigrants from Haiti and African nations “people from shithole countries,” he also asked why the United States couldn’t take in more people from Norway (a country with a nearly all-white population).
Trump’s remarks have placed GOP lawmakers in an awkward position — condemn the president’s comments or defend him . While meeting with constituents earlier this week, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was pressed on the president’s words as a voter asked her about “the damage that Trump is doing to our neighbors around the world with his white supremacy talk.”
Ernst’s answer caused the whole room to laugh.
With Ernst claiming that leaders around the world are supportive of the president and Trump is “standing up for a lot of countries,” someone asked her to “name a few” of those nations.
“Norway,” the Republican lawmaker answered — to clearly skeptical chuckles from the room.
“You laugh, but folks, who borders Norway? Russia,” she said in response to the guffaws.
Watch the clip above, via KETV.
Ms Ernst needs a geography lesson. Norway doesn't border Russia. Finland does, but not Norway
edit: Norway does border Russia but barely. And it's way up north where only caribou live
interesting article @ Norway and Russian walls at the border.
From former the former Soviet Union? I believe it. The Russian mob has no respect for authority at all
Maybe Ernst should go back to "castrating pigs" because, she obviously doesn't know how to call a racist a racist since she "joined" the "big boys" in Washington.
They try to claim what Trump said is not racist because he said Asians, too bad the idiot couldn't name an Asian country if he tried, which proves it was about race! They claim his comment about shithole countries wasn't about race....but can anyone name me 5 Asian countries that anyone who claims that African countries shitholes not say the same thing about them?
hey try to claim what Trump said is not racist because he said Asians, too bad the idiot couldn't name an Asian country if he tried, which proves it was about race
This is what passes for thinking on the left.
Really? Care to name at least 5 Asian countries that would not be considered shitholes as compared to the 54 African countries he claimed were?
Lol, the whole room? More like a few radical left wing plants. The whole room? Hilarious!
While the left keeps trying to push their narrative with lies and deceit the majority of America see's right through it for the bullshit that it is.
Just like in November of 2016.
Most of them were laughing with her not at her. She too was grinning ear to ear when she said it. It was a great way of poking fun at the Trump haters.
What this except omits is that Ernst went on to say that people should remember that Norway is on the Russian border. Nobody laughed then. Although the press rarely covers it, US santions against Russia (over Crimea) is a point of friction internally in Norway and in relations between Norway and Russia.
Why? Norway is nowhere near Crimea
The sanctions against Russia (over Crimea) affect every European country that trades with Russia.
A few of the replies here are amusing. Watch the video or other videos of the event. Ernst was stumped for an answer to what countries trump is supporting and so she grasped at the first country she could remember from recent news.
What a pathetic response. She was an alleged vice president possibility last year too.
Trump supporters in the GOP are a clown show.
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Butt-hurt Trump haters like to think they are spot on but unfortunately the hate they feel for Trump clouds what little good judgement they may have ever had.
Poor things.
Trumpsters can be counted on to invariably defend idiocy.
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The "whole room" is a general description, not sworn testimony. I just watched the video and there was very loud laughing by many people.
Where did I lie? I just quoted part of the article. I don't vouch for every syllable of the articles I seed.
You are grasping at straws because Sen. Ernst sounded ridiculous, especially given the recent controversy over "Norway".
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Your nitpicking in the hope of taking the conversation off track is annoying.
I will stipulate that not the whole room laughed.
Nope, only pointing out the obvious. Nice of you to concede that the article is based on a lie though. Thx for that.
Your biases precede you and follow you all around the room in here. Just like the lady who asked the question that had White Supremacy in it. What a sad sack attempt to discredit Trump and Ernst.
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Sparty, you are just spitting into the wind here. The article is not based on a lie. There was LOUD laughter from many people after Ernst made her ridiculous statement.
You would probably call this "fake news", which only means that you and the idiot in chief would be simpatico on this issue.
Oh, now it's "many" and not "all" eh? Sorry John, at minimum the title of the article is disingenuous, at worst it is a lie.
Unfortunately for you it doesn't pass the eye test. Not the sniff test either actually ...... P U!
I loved what Neilson told Booker after Bookers cry fest rant.
"I have been very patient with this line of (whiney) Questioning( Rants) by the Democrats".
Booker looked like a "whining little bitch" during his "itty bitty" "big top" like tirade.
Evan Lindsey Graham called the Democrats there...."Whiney Bitches".....in a more discreet way.