🧩 BND Motif Index · M1123
Shithole countries
Newcomers are judged by the countries they came from, said to be failed places, not even countries, and the contempt for the place falls on the person: Trump's 'shithole countries' (2018), Cruz on Omar's 'ninth-rate country... they're not even countries'.
- 2claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-27
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump called Norway a "shithouse country" and said he does not want Norwegian immigrants because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Ilhan Omar comes from a ninth-rate country that lacks basic government infrastructure.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz
M1123 · first seen 2026-10-24 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works