HIS LIPS WERE MOVING...:

"When you look at what's happening last night in Sweden - Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden!," the American leader told a Florida rally

Only nothing had happened in Sweden.

While Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt wondered what Trump might have been smoking, others asked whether he might have referred to a massive meatball theft, someone having opened a tin of fermented herring, or the fact that it had snowed overnight.

The curator for Sweden's official Twitter account @sweden - an account that is handed over to a regular Swede every week in a show of democracy - was kept busy reassuring people that all was fine in Sweden. In just four hours, more than 800 people had mentioned the @sweden handle, she said.

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