On the Friday night after Trump’s incendiary news conference, Carlson aired a six-minute segment describing a crisis of violence in Sweden ignited by a recent wave of Muslim immigration and covered up by the government. “That is grotesque,” Carlson declared.[25] Trump was watching. The next day, he threw a line into a speech suggesting that a terrorist attack had happened “last night in Sweden.”[26] Except there had been no terrorist attack. Just like that, the president created a diplomatic dispute with a longtime American ally that resented his false characterization.
