Donald Trump Given Cutting Response From Swedish Embassy In The US

[TomVilmer]

Source: The Huffington Post

The Swedish Embassy in the US has teasingly hit out at Donald Trump after he falsely suggested Sweden had suffered an immigration-related security incident, before later clarifying that he was in fact referring to a now discredited Fox News report.

"We look forward to informing the US administration about Swedish immigration and integration policies.
Sweden’s crime rate has fallen since 2005, even as the country has taken in 100s of thousands of immigrants.
— Embassy of Sweden US (@SwedeninUSA) February 19, 2017"

A day earlier, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom appeared to respond to Trump by posting on Twitter an excerpt of a speech in which she said democracy and diplomacy “require us to respect science, facts and the media”.
Her predecessor, former Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, was less circumspect, writing in a post on Twitter: “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?” ...

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trumps-sweden-comments-prompt-embassy-response-as-presidents-clarifies-that-he-was-referring-to-discredited-fox-report_uk_58aa9bcae4b07602ad55fef4

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Trump got his "info" from Tucker Carlson’s show on Friday night, which included a clip claiming to document alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden. See also this longer Google translated link: Here is the falsehood in the Fox feature on Sweden:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4azPo/efter-trumps-pik-har-ar-osanningarna-i-fox-inslaget-om-sverige&prev=_t

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.

[democratisphere]

1. Fake news from faux news network and drumpf needs to be irradicated.

A fake news march on Fox News Headquarters, National Enquirer Headquarters and the WH might be a good start! Tucker Carlson is an ass.

[lastlib]

5. they went to court to PROVE they were fake news!

[Cha]

2. trump too stupid to get info from US intel.. looks to Fake fox news.

Link to tweet

[Kath2]

8. Every day he exposes how stupid he is!

Happy Not My President Day, Cha!

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[Cha]

10. Yes, Kath, this idiot is #NotMYpresident.. but

Happy Presidents Day To A Leader Who Got The Job Done







https://theobamadiary.com/2017/02/20/happy-presidents-day-to-a-leader-who-got-the-job-done/

Link to tweet

[Kath2]

11. Right on!

I miss him so much already!

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[Cha]

13. Obama/Biden!

Link to tweet

[Kath2]

15. How I will miss them!

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Remember the '@sweden' Twitter account? A school librarian had charge of it that day

so she was well used to informing ignorant children about facts:

US President Donald Trump has sought to explain why he referred to a security incident in Sweden on Friday which did not actually happen.

School librarian Emma Johansen tells the Today programme she was in charge of the official @sweden Twitter account on Saturday night and found herself fielding hundreds of questions from concerned people in Sweden.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39025852

(audio at link)

The concept originated December 10, 2011, when Svenska Institutet and VisitSweden launched Curators of Sweden.[1] The project hands the official Twitter account @Sweden to a new Swedish person every week to manage, with the expressed goal to manifest Swedish diversity and progressiveness through their own life, personality and views.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curators_of_Sweden

[Cha]

14. Thank you for that

[IntraPolitico]

4. Terrifying

It's absolutely crazy how much cable news this man consumes!

[karynnj]

7. You would think that as President, if he read or saw something disturbing, he would ask

For what the US knows before making a statement that negatively colors an ally. It is sad he depends on sources that pepole here would question as not a legitimate source for LBN.

[JudyM]

9. Apparently he's ignorant of the adage " you can't believe everything you hear."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Of mainstream media, the most proven Fake News source is Fox. By a mile. . . nt

[Rex]

12. This all started with Alex Jones making up some weird as shit story about

Sweden and rampaging immigrants blowing up cars and causing huge damage to the entire country.

[TomVilmer]

16. Right wingers does Sweden bashing all the time

So it is really nice, when Trump uses their weird talking points - and we can get their lies cleaned up on a bigger scale.