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During his campaign rally in Florida on Saturday, President Trump 1 seemed to reference a major incident in Sweden, but there was no such event. The internet found the comment confusing and amusing. Swedes are simply baffled. NPR's Camila Domonoske reports.

CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE 2: At his campaign rally on Saturday, President Trump was promising 3 to keep America safe when he listed off a series of places, including sites of devastating 4 terror attacks, like Brussels, Nice and Paris. But he also said this.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You look at what's happening last night in Sweden - Sweden, who would believe this? - Sweden.

DOMONOSKE: It turns out Swedish people had trouble believing that. Younis Ekman (ph), a reporter at the Swedish newspaper Aftenbladet, sums up the big stories in Sweden on Friday.

YOUNIS EKMAN: We had a man who set himself on fire, and we had some car chases. There's still a lot of snow, some problems with traffic.

DOMONOSKE: There was also a technical mishap 5 at a singing competition and a belated report about an amorous 6 moose.

EKMAN: Yeah, that's - the story actually occurred in autumn. A moose got attracted to a wooden moose and started making love in a small town.

DOMONOSKE: But nothing remotely resembling a terrorist incident. Catarina Axelsson is a press officer at the Swedish Ministry 7 of Foreign Affairs. She says the Swedish government has no idea what Trump was referencing.

CATARINA AXELSSON: I'm sorry, but there is nothing. We do not know. We would like to understand as well.

DOMONOSKE: Late today, Trump tweeted that he was referencing a story on Fox News. That was probably a Friday night segment with a filmmaker, who argued that there's an immigrant-fueled rise in crime in Sweden. To be clear, that segment discussed trends over time, which are disputed, and did not suggest that anything happened that day. But it invoked 8 an idea that has gained purchase in some quarters.

MARTIN GELIN: Six, seven years or so, there's been a recurring 9 narrative 10 about Muslim immigrants in Sweden causing crime.

DOMONOSKE: Martin Gelin is a Swedish reporter based in New York, who covered the Trump campaign. He says he's had Trump supporters say they feel sorry for him when he says he's from Sweden, a place he says they view as a nightmare.

GELIN: They know that Sweden has welcomed more refugees than almost any other country in Europe, especially in proportion to how small the country is. And they have heard about this - some, you know, erroneous or heavily exaggerated stories about the increase in crime.

DOMONOSKE: It's a sharp contrast to the other big response he says he receives.

GELIN: On the left, you have completely opposite view of Sweden as a progressive paradise.

DOMONOSKE: Whether they're living in a paradise or a nightmare, Swedes were definitely in a state of confusion after Trump's remarks. Camila Domonoske, NPR News.