Norway's Tourism Board Answers Trump's Insult With Guide to Scenic Public Toilets

Norway's tourism board, Visit Norway, this week published a list of scenic public restrooms on its website, answering President Donald Trump's remark that Norway is a vulgar-termed bad country. Trump made the comment on Sunday at a rally in Michigan ahead of next week's midterm elections. He tied it to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he did not want immigrants from Norway because of that. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, is independent of the government. The website asked whether these were the world's best toilets and used a slogan that echoes Trump's "Make America Great Again." The list features designer restrooms, many with views of fjords, rivers and waterfalls, along 18 scenic routes.

Left-leaning outlets HuffPost and CNN lead with the tourism board's joke. HuffPost's headline calls it the most fitting reply and adds that the Nobel Committee is independent of Norway's government, a point that undercuts Trump's complaint. CNN calls the campaign tongue-in-cheek and ties it to the insult. The right-leaning Daily Mail also leads with the mockery, calling it hilarious and clever, but gives Trump's remarks more space: his statements that Norway sucks and that he is not in love with it, his link between unrest in France and immigration, and earlier uses of the term for Haiti, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. It also covers more of the restroom list. Both sides agree on the core facts. AP's coverage is similar.