Donald Trump may have finally had enough of White House reporters yelling questions at him like the ones they began hurling last Friday: “Mr. President, are you a racist?”

Perhaps, that was one of his first clues that calling African countries "shitholes" wasn't going over so well. By this Tuesday, he had evolved so far away from his own “shithole” remarks that he even started embracing the concept of immigrants from places besides Norway. Here’s a glimpse of a brief Q/A Tuesday following his meeting Tuesday with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan:

Q Mr. President, did you say that you want more people to come in from Norway? Did you say that you wanted more people coming in from Norway? PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Q Is that true, Mr. President? PRESIDENT TRUMP: I want them to come in from everywhere -- everywhere. Thank you very much, everybody.

Everywhere, eh?

Of course, Trump's evolution on whether he really called African nations "shithole countries" was slow in coming. Last Friday, he didn't actually deny it, rather he embraced using what he called "tough" language; by Saturday he was a bit more touchy, claiming Dick Durbin "totally misrepresented" what he said. And by Sunday, he was "the least racist person” ever interviewed by reporters.

Why the slow escalation? Because initially he thought pretty highly of his comments at the meeting—that is, until they became an international incident and it occurred to him that maybe, just maybe, they weren't so great after all.