Monday, February 27, 2017
Trump's Sweden Comment Raises Questions
Just about a week or so ago, Trump, during a rally in Florida discussing immigration, stated that Sweden is having major issues in general, currently with immigration. “We've got to keep our country safe… look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden.” While this was occurring, over in Sweden, everyone was wondering what was going on. Until the Embassy of Sweden stated that they were “unclear to what the president was referring to,” Trump justified that he heard it from a source on Fox News that was proven to be inaccurate. This is definitely not the first time Trump or other members of his administration have randomly blurted out inaccurate information. Do you think it is from lack of knowledge or lack of honesty? How could this future of untruthful statements affect how other countries view us?
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It's disgusting that our own administration is running a country when they don't even know basic facts. Misinformation at that extreme of a level is incredibly dangerous. I think these next four years are seriously going to change how we're viewed in the world-scope.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jordyn. It is very dangerous to make public comments based off of false information or misinterpretations. These comments could have negative results. It is reasonable to assume that this will continue to happen as Trump does not seem to think before making public remarks and is very hot headed. I personally think it's laughable and sad that this is happening so often with Trump.
ReplyDeleteI think this was due to Trump's lack of knowledge instead of dishonesty, and this shows a clear lack of planning and awareness as well. In casual conversation in private, inaccuracies like this could be excusable, but Trump said this at a public rally, where his every word would be recorded. It seems Trump was unaware of the public nature of this event, and he is making a joke of the US.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that this incident occurred due to President Trump's lack of knowledge. I do not believe that he is stupid enough to think that such a lie would actually be effective, but I guess he has done similar things in the past. Honestly, I do not know if I would rather have an uninformed president or a lying president. At least a lying president knows the difference between fantasy and reality...
ReplyDeleteHonestly this masterful ability to ruin the US's credibility is amazing. To be completely honest, I think his mistakes are a combination of lack of honesty as well as lack of knowledge. He doesn't really know anything at all. He speaks like a 4th grader and his ideas are immature. His mishap with the "problem" in Sweden wasn't so much either I think. I think he was trying to rouse the crowd to cheering, because he's an egoist and feeds off of other's praise of himself.
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ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard when I saw the video for the first time, and the Swedish embassy's tweets back at him were savage as hell, it made me so happy. He said that he got the information from a Fox news report, so I guess he thinks Fox is the only "real" news left, but since he just looked like a bumbling idiot on the world stage based on their report, maybe that'll change. Let's just ban the media as a whole, right? They're all liars, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe Trump administration is definitely suffering from a combination of lack of honesty and lack of information, which is inarguably an incredibly dangerous mix. The fact that he would blatantly say something that absurd and completely without support is not unbelievable (which is a problem in itself) but incredibly dumb. He, his words, and his actions are going to turn this country into a laughingstock.