Trump Blasts 'Fake News Media' Over Sweden Flap

President Donald Trump continued his assault on the "fake news media" Monday morning.

He took to Twitter at 9:15 a.m. over news coverage of the impact of immigration in Sweden.

Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2017

Monday's tweet followed Trump's post from the night before, in which he clarified his remark Saturday, made in the context of past terror attacks in Europe: "Look what's happening last night in Sweden."

A White House spokeswoman said  Trump was "talking about rising crime and recent incidents in general and not referring to a specific incident."

But on Twitter, Trump made reference to something he saw on Fox News Channel.

My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 19, 2017

It appearsTrump was referring to Fox host Tucker Carlson's interview on Friday night with filmmaker Ami Horowitz, who made a documentary about refugees in Sweden.

Carlson's report said Sweden had accepted more than 160,000 asylum-seekers last year but that only 500 of the migrants had found jobs in Sweden, and went on to say that a surge in violence had followed.

A columnist for the British conservative magazine Spectator also wrote a piece last September that outlined ways in which Sweden was an example of how not to handle immigrants.