--- title: Donald Trump Uses CPAC Speech to Hit Sweden Again description: President Donald Trump once again brought up Sweden during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday morning canonical: https://time.com/4681963/cpac-donald-trump-sweeden/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-24T16:15:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:30:42.198Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Is Still Talking About Sweden og:description: The [Swedish] people understand I’m right." og:url: https://time.com/4681963/cpac-donald-trump-sweeden/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45bec7dc727e9f9d/6988bbcd8e060168f2469548/donald-trump-cpac1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: President Trump Addresses Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Is Still Talking About Sweden twitter:description: The [Swedish] people understand I’m right." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45bec7dc727e9f9d/6988bbcd8e060168f2469548/donald-trump-cpac1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Is Still Talking About Sweden > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 24, 2017. Olivier Douliery—Pool/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Feb 24, 2017 4:15 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4672974/donald-trump-white-house-chaos/) once again brought up [Sweden](http://time.com/4676133/white-house-donald-trump-sweden/) during his speech at the [Conservative Political Action Conference](http://time.com/4681802/donald-trump-cpac-speech-media/?xid=homepage) on Friday morning, less than a week after he first appeared to [reference an attack in the country](http://time.com/4676024/donald-trump-sweden-terror-attack-rally/?iid=sr-link2) that never actually happened. “I took a lot of heat on Sweden,” the President said. “A day later I said has anybody reported what’s going on? And it turned out that they didn’t, not too many of them. … The \[Swedish\] people understand I’m right.” In his original remarks, Trump said an incident had occurred last Friday night in Sweden. He later clarified that he was talking about a Fox News segment that ran that night about immigration in Sweden which alleged there had been a surge in violence in the country. There is [no data](http://time.com/4676636/sweden-donald-trump-crime-figures/?iid=sr-link1) to suggest that refugees are responsible for more crime in Sweden than other groups and Sweden’s crime prevention council found that there was no significant increase in crimes between 2015 and 2016\. 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