Donald Trump tweeted: "Man shot inside Paris police station. Just announced that terror threat is at highest level. Germany is a total mess-big crime. GET SMART!"
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| Confusion: Trump was roundly mocked for seeming to say Paris was in Germany |
Donald Trump has urged people to "get smart" after a man carrying a meat cleaver and a fake suicide belt was shot dead outside a police station in northern Paris today.
But the Republican candidate failed to heed his own advice after he seemed to suggest Paris was actually in Germany.
He tweeted: "Man shot inside Paris police station. Just announced that terror threat is at highest level. Germany is a total mess-big crime. GET SMART!"
Man shot inside Paris police station. Just announced that terror threat is at highest level. Germany is a total mess-big crime. GET SMART!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2016
The tweet provided much needed light relief for a world still reeling from the news a man had tried to enter a police station with a knife exactly a year after the Charlie Hebdo attack which killed 17 people over three days last year.
The phrase "Paris is in Germany" is now trending on Twitter, and people took to the social networking site to give the controversial politician a geography lesson.
.@realDonaldTrump Yeah, Paris in Germany is in a terrible mess!
— Ian Power (@IHPower) January 7, 2016
Theres people who actually want to vote for president a man who thinks Paris is in Germany... https://t.co/lvwAeKE9II
— Champagne Papi (@KingLorent) January 7, 2016
Paris is in Germany? Lol thats new.. we were not updated (mandatory tweet of someone who studied the map of Europe)
— Pau Mendoza (@paaaumendozaaa) January 7, 2016
Morocco is in Mexico. Paris is in Germany. Elect Donald Turnip
— John Lurie (@lurie_john) January 7, 2016
While others mocked him by Tweeting weird mixtures of German and French just to show how far apart the two countries are.
— Daniel (@MSDanielM82) January 7, 2016
@realDonaldTrump hahahahaha danke cheune from #Paris
— adelbencherif (@adelbencherif1) January 7, 2016
Even British politicians waded in with Labour MP for the Rhondda Chris Bryant MP commenting this was good news for people who had signed a petition asking for Trump to be banned from the UK after he made allegedly 'racist' comments about banning Muslims from the US.
I've realised there's no threat @realDonaldTrump will make it to UK. He thinks Paris is in Germany. #getsmart
— Chris Bryant MP (@RhonddaBryant) January 7, 2016
But others were quick to defend him, pointing out that Trump was trying to talk about two separate ideas.
@MrMo_J @realDonaldTrump It's ok, Mr Trump! Just goes to show that libs can't handle more than one thing at a time.The POINT: global problem
— FindingAmericaAgain (@acsim) January 7, 2016
@RonHaskell @realDonaldTrump He made two separate points. Clearly by the use of a period instead of a comma. Brush up on your punctuation
— cam (@EatSleepNTrade) January 7, 2016
It has been suggested Trump might have been talking about the mass crime in Cologne on New Year's Eve in which women 60 women were allegedly sexually assaulted by a gang of 1,000 men.
But if that was the case, Trump should have "Got Smart" and used two separate tweets - after all there is only so much you can do in 140 characters.
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