Former president donald trump on Monday deleted a social media video that referenced the phrase “Unified Reich” after its critics said the phrase reflected that of Nazi Germany.
The phrase “Unified Reich” appears as part of hypothetical news articles in the video announcing Trump’s hypothetical victory in the 2024 election, with the narrator asking, “What happens after Donald Trump wins?”
Under a big headline that reads: “WHAT’S NEXT FOR AMERICA?” there is a smaller headline that appears to say: “SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BOOSTED BY CREATION OF A UNIFIED KINGDOM.”
The video then predicts an economic boom, tax cuts, border security and deportation of undocumented immigrants if Trump wins the 2024 election.
A spokesperson for the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign criticized the video Monday night, saying it was “rehashing ‘Mein Kampf.’”
“Donald Trump is not kidding; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: govern like a dictator over a ‘unified Reich,'” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer wrote in a statement .
“Repeating ‘Mein Kampf’ while you warn about a bloodbath getting lost is the kind of unhinged behavior you get from a guy who knows that democracy continues to reject his extreme vision of chaos, division and violence,” Singer continued.
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In a statement to ABC News, the Trump campaign said it was not a campaign video, but rather a random online video reposted by an employee who did not see the word.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random online account and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word while the president was in court,” Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s press secretary, said in a statement.
The video was posted at 1:58 pm ET, as Trump’s secret trial took place at lunchtime. The video was taken down Tuesday morning after remaining on Trump’s social media page for more than 18 hours.
The video appears to have been made using an existing video template that mimics an old newspaper, with various parts of the template referencing historical dates and events.
In the model, a fake report appears to say: “INDUSTRIAL FORCE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED IN 1871, DRIVED BY THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED KING,” the reference to the year 1871 not visible in the video Trump shared because it was blurred and cropped.
Over the past year, Trump has repeatedly faced criticism similar to echoing words from Nazi Germany or fascist figures, including during a rally in November last year, when he compared his political opponents to “worms” that he will “root out.”
Trump has also repeatedly said that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” — drawing scrutiny from critics who say the language is used by white supremacists and Hitler, who infamously wrote about “blood poisoning” in his book “Mein Kampf”.
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Trump later claimed he never read “Mein Kampf,” saying he is using that language “in a very different way” when he disparages undocumented immigrants.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung last year also dismissed the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini,” calling them a “ridiculous claim.”
“Those trying to make this ridiculous claim are clearly snowflakes out for anything because they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be destroyed when President Trump returns to the White House,” Cheung said.
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