Trump's Sweden remark prompts hilarious #LastNightInSweden tweets

US President Donald Trump's recent allegation regarding Sweden has everyone confused, including the Swedes themselves. While talking about Europe accepting immigrants and how it led to more attacks there, Trump seemed to suggest that a terror attack occurred in Sweden on Friday. Except, that the Swedes were not aware of such an incident.

On Twitter, #LastNightInSweden began to trend soon after Trump's misguided comments. It was a hilarious response that satirised the issue. Twitterers started posting photos of random (and sometimes ridiculous) occurrences from Sweden, with made-up headlines.

One particular GIF image seemed to be highly retweeted, with dire warning such as “Beware” and “Pray for Sweden”. In it, a man suspiciously walks up to a trash can, looks around, and then topples it over.

An illustration that looks like an IKEA manual to building a “Border Wall” (a reference to Trump's wall with Mexico) also went viral, as did a black poster that said, “Je suis whatever happened in Sweden”.

On Saturday, Trump was talking at a rally in Florida about the “dangerous” consequences of allowing refugees to come into the country. He mentioned countries such as Germany, Brussels and France that have accepted huge numbers of refugees, linking it with a rise in terrorist attacks there. “We've got to keep our country safe,” he said, “You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?”

When Trump mentioned Sweden, Twitter users pointed out that no terrorist-related activities happened in the country, especially on Friday. Further, a spokesperson from the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that even the authorities did not find any “terror-linked major incidents” that Trump seemed to be referring to.

When asked to clarify what he meant, Trump tweeted, “My statement as to what was happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden.”

The Embassy of Sweden in the US, tweeted, "We look forward to informing the US administration about Swedish immigration and integration policies."

Internet detectives scoured through Friday news to find if there was truth to his claim. Some said that Trump might have been talking about a Fox News interview with filmmaker Ami Horowitz, in which he points a finger at refugees in reference to rising rates of crime in Sweden.

Carl Bildt, ex-Swedish prime minister, was also confused. “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound,” he tweeted.

Twitter users referred to this incident as similar to the “Bowling Green massacre”, which has come to mean “an event that has never happened”. It refers to Counsellor Kellyanne Conway's February statement to several national television and print media in which she mentions a “massacre” caused by two Iraqi refugees being “under reported”.