Pres. Trump explained that a remark he made about Sweden’s open door immigration policy during his rally on Saturday, was learned by watching Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Friday night. “Take a look at Paris”, he said as he pledged to keep the “country safe”. Sweden, who would believe this? But it turns out Trump was referring to something he saw on Fox News the night previous that focused on refugees and crime.
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On Saturday in Melbourne, Fla., Trump’s comments at a campaign-style rally seemed to indicate that something bad had taken place the night before in Sweden.
“Tragically, Sweden is the third not-a-terrorist attack that has not shocked the world last month”, Stephen Colbert said regarding the Swedish flub.
A head-scratcher from his speech on Saturday in Florida, eerily similar to the snafu Kellyanne Conway recently created when she mentioned to a “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened.
The press secretary cited a terror attack in Atlanta while defending the Trump administration’s travel ban.
After Swedes reacted with humor and confusion to President Trump’s remarks, the president tried the following day to clarify what he meant.
Trump’s statements were rebutted by Twitter users including Chelsea Clinton.
In a scathing ten-minute monologue on Late Night host Seth Meyers went in on the latest news from President Donald Trump.
Tweets mocking the US President began flooding social media, including one from former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who asked what Mr Trump had been smoking.
A self-described “fire starter”, Karlsson spent some time addressing Trump’s comments after he took over the account Monday morning. He was interviewing potential national security advisors.
There was indeed a recent attack in Sweden, on January 5, but it targeted immigrants and was largely under-reported, according to The Independent newspaper.
Emergency services are regularly attacked by stone-throwing youths and on Monday night, rioters in a suburb of the capital battled police and burned a handful of cars.
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The Swedish Embassy in Washington contacted the White House to get some clarifications on President Trump’s comments that were made during a rally in Florida.
