(San Francisco, CA) – In an bizarre turn of events that has confused the entire world, President Donald Trump gave a speech during a Florida rally on Saturday in which he alluded to non-existent troubles in Sweden. “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany. You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” 

Most news commentators, because of the larger context of the speech, interpreted these statements as referring to terrorist attacks having occurred in Sweden on the previous night. The Swedish ambassador to the United States, noting that no such attack had occurred, asked for an explanation. The White House could provide no details, and as of this morning had given no response.

A possible explanation was presented this evening by an anonymous employee of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the company behind the special effects in the Star Wars series of movies. The employee reported that the First Family had received a special screening of an extended edition director’s cut of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” in the White House’s private movie theater on Friday night. 

After the screening, the President reportedly couldn’t stop talking about the film, and was gushing with praise over what he called “an amazing, amazing achievement.” The ILM employee, however, stated that though the President expressed admiration for the story and special effects, handing out Presidential Medals of Freedom to all attendees, he appeared to be confused about many of the details of the movie.

“He kept referring to how funny ‘TRS-80,’ was; I assume he meant the droid K-2SO. I also heard him talking about how cool Ralph Nader was during the final scenes of the movie, and how it was really cool that the ‘Denzel guy’ took care of Jane. He was a bit confused over why people didn’t seem to like the guys wearing white, who were obviously the good guys. During the ‘battle of Sweden,’ he thought David Carridine did a great job with that ‘forcefulness’ stuff. Worst of all, he was glad that all of the bad guys died in the end.”

Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, also noticed that the President got some of the details of the film wrong. “He didn’t seem like he paid attention to the movie much. But, hey, he’s the President; he has a lot on his mind. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that Peter Cushing was not going to accept his invitation to a state dinner.”

A spokesman for the President, when presented with a pre-release copy of this article provided the following statement:

“Presidents have a lot of responsibility, and are privy to information that you and I don’t have. We just need to trust him and his intelligence. As to confusing movies with reality, no President would do that.”