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Trump Ridiculed On Twitter After He Cites Non-Existent Terror Attack In Sweden

February 19, 2017 by Samuel Warde No Comments

Trump is mercilessly mocked on Twitter after citing a non-existent terror attack in Sweden as justification for his Muslim ban.

Trump offered tough talk on refugee policies in Europe during a campaign-style rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday.

“We’ve got to keep our country safe,” he told the crowd before running through a list of places that have been hit by terrorist.

“You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. 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.” (You can read the full transcript here, courtesy of Vox News.)

The Guardian reports that: “There were questions about whether Trump had confused Sweden with Sehwan in Pakistan, where a suicide bomber blew himself up among devotees at the Sufi shrine on Friday, killing 80 people.”

The real kicker, however, might be the actual numbers. As The New York Times reports, “Contrary to Mr. Trump’s allegations, nearly all of the men involved in terrorist assaults in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, in Brussels on March 22 last year, and in Nice, France, on July 14, were citizens of France or Belgium.”

The Guardian noted that: “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.”

The New York Times reports that Twitter was fast to respond to Trump’s confusion – possible the result of watching a “Fox News interview of Ami Horowitz, a filmmaker who asserts that migrants in Sweden have been associated with an increase in crime, by the correspondent Tucker Carlson.”

“Some citizens of Sweden were baffled by the comments,” The Guardian reported, adding that: “One of the country’s official Twitter accounts, controlled by a different citizen each week, currently a school librarian, said: ‘Nothing has happened here in Sweden. There has not [been] any terrorist attacks here. At all.'”

Carl Bildt, Sweden’s foreign minister from 2006 to October 2014 and Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994, tweeted: “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound.”

The New York Times reports that the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet noted that “Twitter users were quick to ridicule Mr. Trump’s remark, with joking references to the Swedish Chef, the ‘Muppets’ character; Swedish meatballs; and Ikea, the furniture giant.”

One Twitter user posted a photo of the Swedish pop group Abba:

Then there were the survivors from the Kellyanne Conway’s fictitious Bowling Green massacre. (See The Washington Post for more info on her remarks.)

Chelsea Clinton weighed in, asking: “What happened in Sweden Friday night? Did they catch the Bowling Green Massacre perpetrators?”

Melissa McEwan, Editor-in-Chief of Shakesville.com, tweeted: “Conway makes up Bowling Green Massacre. Spicer makes up attack in Atlanta. Trump makes up attack in Sweden. All fake; all blamed on Muslims.”

Comedian Jeff Dwoskin tweeted: “Sadly, Last Night in Sweden all the remaining survivors of the Bowling Green Massacre were killed.”

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