The Sweden thing: Was it more than just a bizarre non-sequitur?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

So yesterday Trump went all Kellyanne Conway and invented a nonexistent terrorist attack in Sweden. But was it really all that random?

IIRC during the campaign, Trump's alt-right legion of trolls on Reddit decided they were going to pick a fight with Sweden. I have no idea what spurred it and it's hard to explain Trump trolls in the first place but they invaded the Sweden board on Reddit and started posting their idiotic memes like the degenerates they are.

So it could be possible Trump's WTF moment was not out of the blue but rather a winking Carol Burnett ear tug to the otherwise politically undesirable alt-right.

[dawg]

1. Right wingers hate civilized countries like Sweden.

They put the lie to all of their right-wing "so-called" economic theories.

[Progressive dog]

2. His alt-right base wants him to make

stuff up. Truth is not their friend.

[lame54]

3. So tired of the Trump 3-D chess analogies...

the guy's fucking nuts

he is only still in there because of greedy republicans who love tax cuts more than their country

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. It's not that complicated to do a shout out.

I agree Trump's no masterful genius but I do think he might have been throwing his extremist base a bone without being too obvious.

[lame54]

5. What did they get out of it?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Masterbation material?

I don't know, probably just a general sense that Trump hadn't sold them out.

[Squinch]

7. My hairdresser, an immigrant from an Eastern European country, went into a diatribe

last time I was in the chair, about how Sweden is being ruined by refugees who were marauding through the streets and creating havoc.

I told her that I had very recently spent a good deal of time in Sweden, and no such thing was happening.

My eyewitness report had no effect on her belief.

It was completely bizarre.