Abba Jokes Abound Over Trump’s Bizarre Sweden Terrorist Attack Claim
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(NEWSER) – “We’ve got to keep our country safe,” opined President Trump at his rally Saturday in Florida. “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? … They’re having problems like they never thought possible,” he said, comparing those problems to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice, and Paris.
The comment was news to Swedes, reports the Guardian, who are engaging in some collective head-scratching over the decidedly non-existent attacks. “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound,” tweeted former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt.
One tabloid listed the incidents that did in fact happen in Sweden on Friday, notes the AP, which included “a man being treated for severe burns, an avalanche warning, and police chasing a drunken driver.”
Trump could have been confusing Sweden with Sehwan, Pakistan, notes the Guardian, where a suicide bomber struck on Friday, killing 85 people. The other possibility is an interview with documentary maker Ami Horowitz that aired on Fox News; Horowitz’s latest film examines Sweden’s crime rate and whether it’s related to the nation’s open-door policy toward refugees.
Regardless, the internet was off to the races, reports Mashable, with #SwedenIncident trending and no shortage of jokes about ABBA, IKEA, and the occasional randy and/or drunken moose: “Four extremists responsible for #swedenincident are still at large, if you see these people phone @realDonaldTrump at once,” tweeted one user beneath a photo of ABBA.
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CNN just a while ago aired a Fox Fantasy showing video of burning things and angry men. The story was that of all the refugees, only a small number had jobs yet and so they were sure to become terrorists as “those people” always do. This is how it all ends, not with a bang but with Fox News.
Apparently the so-called president sow the thing, didn’t understand it or look anything up and repeated it, just like his psychopathic followers. We are so screwed.
It’s being reported, he got his info from some moron Tucker Carlson was interviewing about violence being up for a documentary he had in Sweden, or he got Sewhan Pakistan mixed up with Sweden the country that gave us the brilliant ABBA, hey don’t judge me 😉 either way it’s a fuckin nightmare of epic proportions.
replying to myself because Mike said all that up there except the ABBA love you idiot Jess. Again, don’t judge me, I love them and I am not ashamed of it at all.
Abba. I don’t get the whole joke thing. Is this something that only dedicated ABBITES would get? Inquiring minds and all of that 🙂
Not really an ABBITES thing. Lot of people don’t care for them because of the cheesy music. Me, I love them because of the cheesy music. I think the thing with it this time is the joke that Sweden foisted ABBA on the rest of the world, like Canada did with Justin Beiber and they are sorry for it in a tongue in cheek way.
Ah. I see. I see (nodding wisely).
Oh you laugh my man but have you ever been lost in an IKEA warehouse and had to eat the meatballs there? Je suis Sweden
LOL! Good point Jess 🙂