At a rally yesterday in Florida, Trump said: "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?"
The response on Twitter was swift. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt responded: "Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound."
And now Chelsea Clinton:
A soldier stands guard at the Qayyarah airbase in southern Mosul on March 26. Photo: Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The United States-led coalition in Iraq withdrew from K-1 Air Base in the northern part of the country on Sunday, AP reports.
Why it matters: It's the third site that coalition forces have left this month as the U.S. gathers troops in Baghdad and at Ain al-Asad Air Base.
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Hong Kong demonstrators protest a government ban on face masks in October. Photo by Laurel Chor/Getty Images
The year of the mass uprising has collided with the year of the coronavirus lockdown, leaving protest movements around the world stalled.
The big picture: The enduring images of 2019 are of protest — from Hong Kong to Khartoum, across the Middle East and through much of Latin America. Seemingly overnight, though, social distancing has made such mass demonstrations almost unthinkable.