The following article by Rick Noack was posted on the Washington Post website February 20, 2017:
President Trump caused confusion during a Saturday rally in Florida when he said: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” Trump then mentioned the French cities of Nice and Paris and the Belgian capital, Brussels. The three European cities were attacked by terrorists over the past two years.
Although Trump did not explicitly say it, his remarks were widely perceived in the United States and abroad as suggesting that an attack had occurred Friday night in Sweden. Continue reading “Trump asked people to ‘look at what’s happening … in Sweden.’ Here’s what’s happening there.”