We’re ‘Missing the Point’: Carlson, Fox & Friends Smack Media’s Reaction to Trump’s Sweden Admission

Tucker Carlson made an appearance on Fox & Friends on Monday morning, where he gave his thoughts about how President Donald Trump used a segment of his show as the basis for one of the most striking moments of a speech this past weekend.

Trump has admitted that his apparent reference to an nonexistent terror incident in Sweden was based off of a report where Carlson addressed the country’s refugee policy. Today, Carlson said that Trump should be precise in the way he speaks, but the Tucker Carlson Tonight host also opined that “we may be missing the point” that the president was trying to make about crime rates and Muslim integration into European society.

Carlson argued that nationalism is on the rise in Europe as an inverse reaction to years of “social dislocation” that countries have experienced due to open-door attempts to address the refugee crisis. Eventually, Steve Doocy brought up how the media “went crazy” while covering how Trump made up a terror attack (which was scrutinized by the Swedish government and many others).

“They missed the point. There’s trouble in Sweden,” Doocy surmised. Carlson responded by again saying that Trump should be more concise, though admitting that he felt the analysis of POTUS’ point on other news networks was “so stupid that it’s hard to believe that it made it on television.”

Watch above, via Fox.

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