Last Night in Sweden? Trumps Remark Baffles a Nation

[milestogo]

Source: New York Times

LONDON Swedes reacted with confusion, anger and ridicule on Sunday to a vague remark by President Trump that suggested that something terrible had occurred in their country.

During a campaign-style rally on Saturday in Florida, Mr. Trump issued a sharp if discursive attack on refugee policies in Europe, ticking off a list of places that have been hit by terrorists.

You look at whats happening, he told his supporters. Weve got to keep our country safe. You look at whats happening in Germany, you look at whats happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?

Not the Swedes. Nothing particularly nefarious happened in Sweden on Friday or Saturday, for that matter and Swedes were left baffled. Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound, Carl Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister, wrote on Twitter.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.html

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He continues to raise his status as the biggest idiot in the world.

[milestogo]

1. This was Trump's source:

Link to tweet

more from the swedes at: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/JdE9P/sa-skojar-natet-om-trumps-sverige-uttalande

[skip fox]

4. Could he be thinking of Inforwars?

http://www.infowars.com/cities-in-sweden-told-to-prepare-for-war/

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Probably the source.

Good find!

[Ohioboy]

9. I'm sure this is it, which shows how crazy he is.

I think Trump spends a lot of time on line looking at crazy alt-right conspiracy websites. The sad part is be believes the crazy websites and puts down the regular media.

[madaboutharry]

11. I think you're right.

The President of The United States is a conspiracy theorist.

[lark]

22. Liar in chief

and dictator wanna-be is what he is.

[justgamma]

26. His right hand man

is a conspiracy nut from Breitbart so you know who has his ear.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. And that is who writes his talking points.

including this one.

[annabanana]

24. Damn.. those people are really really crazy. . . n/t

[BREMPRO]

33. apparently there is civil war in Sweden

curious that this fiction was spread by RT news...


http://www.snopes.com/sweden-refugee-center-arson/

[7962]

35. I think you've got it

only thing that makes sense

[Cha]

59. and, trump LIES and blames it on fake fox news.

[Botany]

25. I'm thinking Swedish meatballs

[left-of-center2012]

27. That must be it

Ive had some bad meatballs!

[Botany]

30. That is it. Terrorist meatballs at the Smrgsbord.

“Sweden,” he said. “They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris. We’ve allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing. So we’re going to keep our country safe.” NY Times

The man is crazy!

[2naSalit]

42. +1000000000000000000000000!!!

[briv1016]

38. I refuse to believe that the Swedish Chef had anything to do with this.

Don't sully his good name.

[longship]

40. Bork, Bork, Bork! nt

[world wide wally]

50. He has always been one of my heroes.

I would vote for him over Trump.

[safeinOhio]

2. Keep our country safe and lock up trump supporters.

They are being arrested for hate crimes every day, right here in America.

http://time.com/4651432/trump-muslim-woman-jfk-airport/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Yes, report hate crimes and get neighbors and bystanders and friends to report them as well.

The more reports, the more seriously they will be taken and followed up.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. 🔺This🔺 is what's true. For so long, Dems didn't shoot back hard at the shots taken

Against them by lying repukes. And neither did media.

We the (70% now, the real "silent majority&quot are the ones causing that tacit "diplomatic" rule to change.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Real Swedish news: "A wooden moose got the attention of a lovesick moose bull"

The source of Trump’s remark is unclear, but it came after Fox News aired an interview with filmmaker Ami Horowitz, whose latest documentary examines whether high crime rates in areas of Sweden is linked to its previous open-door migration policy.

According to the 2016 Swedish Crime Survey, crime rates in Sweden have stayed relatively stable over the last decade, with some fluctuations. In 2015, there were 112 cases of lethal violence in Sweden, an increase of 25 cases compared with 2014, but assaults, threats, sexual offences, car theft, burglary and harassment all reduced compared to the previous year – as did anxiety about crime in society.
...
After Trump’s remarks in Florida the Swedish news outlet Aftonbladet posted a story about crime that really had occurred in Sweden on Friday. It included “due to harsh weather in northern parts of Sweden the road E10 was closed between Katterjakk and Riksgransen” and “a man died in hospital, after an accident in the workplace earlier that day”.

It added: “OK let’s not be fake news, this story took place in the autumn, but was reported Friday before lunchtime and we thought you would like it. A wooden moose got the attention of a lovesick moose bull.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/19/sweden-trump-cites-non-existent-terror-attack

Link to tweet

[Brogrizzly]

44. Ahahahaha nice.

[Pachamama]

53. Swedish humor.....the best....

It added: “OK let’s not be fake news, this story took place in the autumn, but was reported Friday before lunchtime and we thought you would like it. A wooden moose got the attention of a lovesick moose bull.”


Bwaaaahaaaahaaaa....

[Ohioboy]

5. Just more Trump fake news.

Remember the ban was not a ban.

[gordianot]

6. When you think about it Trump and Company imagination productions a new business.

Bloodless but not blameless.

[Dustlawyer]

8. Another example of how the RW propaganda machine has their followers,

including Trump, believing in something the rest of us know to be false. They want to make Sweden look bad so Bernie's idea of Democratic Socialism will look worse. I may be giving them too much credit for the last sentence, but they propaganda manufacturers have been very devious with their targets.

We need to bust up the media oligarchies and require truth in the news! Novel thing I know, but we could make it happen so weak minded individuals like Trump would not get the wrong ideas!

[DFW]

10. What happened in Sweden last night is nothing compared to what happened in Sioux Falls, SD n/t

[Vinca]

12. This may be more Trump bullshittery meant to distract from the Navy aircraft carrier just deployed

to the South China Sea that has already evoked a warning from China. When Dear Leader throws out something so ridiculous it gets the world's attention, it's most likely a smokescreen fed to him by his idiot aides.

[33taw]

13. I think this is done intentionally. He wants to be a dictator, he is brain washing his followers.

Trump and his aides say this stuff to get his supporters inflamed. While we all laugh at what an idiot he is, this is reported on right wing sights as real, which is their only source. His supports then ask for more immigration controls, supporting his isolation of the US. Is Melania staying in New York because she wants to or because he wants her isolated from us? I think he is an abuser in all of his relationships.

[oberliner]

14. Fpx News ran a show about supposed immigrant violence in Sweden on Friday night

That is what Trump was talking about.

[mobeau69]

15. We are all Swedes.

[n2doc]

16. One site had a pretty good response

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Vn17J/in-english-this-happened-in-sweden-friday-night-mr-president

[EricMaundry]

17. Remember Sweden!

[dembotoz]

18. Bowling Green Sweden

It was awful

[Mendocino]

28. I hear that ABBA will be doing

a benefit concert for the survivors. An eye witness said there were meatballs and fondue splattered everywhere on the streets.

[milestogo]

49. I heard John McCain will be singing Dancing Queen with the band.

(His favorite song.)

[riversedge]

19. BREAKING NEWS- The six foot paper Trump statue bravely survived the Sweden incident

This is a pic of Gene--the guy who praised Trump yesterday at the rally. He has this paper cut out of trump in his home-and prays for Trump every day. I read that Fox is praising Gene!! no surprise --but so far -he is turning out to be another Plummer Joe!! Saw some of tweets!! Very ugly!!



Tony Posnanski Verified account ‏@tonyposnanski 2h2 hours ago

BREAKING NEWS- The six foot paper Trump statue bravely survived the Sweden incident #swedenincident

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

20. First pictures in of the terror attack in Sweden. Trump announces moose travel ban

Tweet

ItsAllAboutTheMané ‏@KloppClips 3h3 hours ago

First pictures in of the terror attack in Sweden. Trump announces moose travel ban
#swedenincident pic.twitter.com/cE0EecV9gX

Link to tweet

[Botany]

23. Last night in Bowling Green, Sweden Fredrick Douglas was killed by ISIS-T

n/t

[left-of-center2012]

29. Well, Trump warned us about fake news n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

31. They rounded up the usual suspect responsible for an attack in Sweden...

Lutefisk, don't cha know.

/revision/latest?cb=20081218220408

[whistler162]

32. Codn't you come up with something

less odoriferous?

[FailureToCommunicate]

55. I trolled for other images but that was the only catch. And, lute fisk doesn't smell much, the real

problem is that it also doesn't taste like much either. And the texture? Yuck, like chewing rubber bands.

That's a Swedish attack you'll remember.

[lame54]

36. Trump has too much crazy for one nation...

He's gotta share it with the world

[JHB]

37. I think this implies that Donny has gotten splinters somewhere unmentionable...

...so he had traumatic sympathy for that moose.

[C_U_L8R]

39. Ah, the lingonberries... that's where he had them

Trump's geometric logic confounds the world again

[TomVilmer]

41. Nothing happened last night - but there are some misunderstood truth in it

Trump is again making up stories, helped by fake news.

There has been some violence in Sweden in the last years, arson attacks at maybe a dozen refugee centers, gangs fighting in the city of Malmö, and unusual shootings. But there is little connection between these crimes - and nothing at all in the last week.

The small country of Sweden has a lot of free space, and has chosen to open up for millions of new citizens from all the world, and is now booming as the largest economy of the Nordic countries.

[muriel_volestrangler]

45. Mind you, moose bites can be pretti nasti ...

[TomCADem]

46. Donald Trump is right, there was a recent attack in Sweden. By neo-Nazis on a refugee centre

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-terror-attack-claim-sweden-neo-nazis-refugee-centre-florida-rally-a7588516.html

One of the country's official Twitter accounts, controlled by a different citizen each week, said: "Nothing has happened here in Sweden. There has not [been] any terrorist attacks here. At all."

However, despite widespread debunking of his claims, it has since emerged a largely underreported attack did, in fact, occur last month.

Three suspected neo-Nazis were arrested in January after a Gothenburg Asylum centre became the target of a homemade bomb attack, leaving one person seriously injured.

Security services said all three suspects had previously been members of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR), a group that openly promotes racist and anti-Semitic views and has vocally opposed non-white immigration to the country.

[milestogo]

48. So an attack by a hate group is the same as an attack group by refugees

and he makes no distinction between immigrants and refugees.

[red dog 1]

51. Twitler said: "You look at what's happening last night in Sweden"

He said this yesterday, (Saturday), so whatever incident he was referring to was supposed to have happened on Friday night, not last month: and since NOTHING happened on Friday night in Sweden, it's just more evidence that he's a pathological liar, who lies every single day.

As far as the NMR, I'm sure he considers them to be "Swedish patriots."

[Sancho]

47. Video surfaces of attempted Swedish beheading!!

[red dog 1]

52. K&R

Just another lie from the Liar-in-Chief!

[Tommy Generico]

54. Not exactly what Trump implied, but possibly this?

???
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/08/alleged-gang-rape-facebook-shocks-sweden/97633012/

[Kennah]

56. Remember

[Kennah]

57. The horror. The horror.

[Kennah]

58. Rest In Peace

[Cha]

60. "He continues to raise his status as the biggest idiot in the world."

Yeah right! And, I'm sure he has some strong completion somewhere?!

[Kablooie]

61. A horse named Biscuit was rescued from a well. Maybe that's what Trump was talking about.