I'm not particularly surprised by the remark. And it will indeed play well with his base so I don't see much downside for him. The 35% of the country that still think he's doing great consider this aspect of him to be a feature, not a bug.

The problem I had with what he said is not that he called the countries s***holes. Parts of them undoubtedly are. The problem is that he didn't then go on to say, "what can we do to help the people there who want to better their lives?" but instead asked why can't we get more people from norway?