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Former President Donald Trump posted a video on Monday showing an image of a fake newspaper article that refers to a “united empire” if he is re-elected in 2024.
The video, posted to President Trump’s Truth Social account, features a narrator reading hypothetical headlines such as “Economic boom!” while detailing “what will happen after Donald Trump wins.” and “The Border is Closed,” which is modeled after a World War I-era newspaper clipping. Under the heading “What’s next for America?” This is a reference to “the creation of a unified empire.”
Another headline in the video reads “15 million illegal aliens deported” next to the start and end dates of World War I.
The term “Reich” is often associated with Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler’s regime, which designated Germany as the “Third Reich” from 1933 to 1945.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said in a statement that the video, which remains on the Trump campaign page, was not created by the campaign and that “staff members clearly did not see the words while the president was in court.” Reposted by.” ”
Meanwhile, the Biden campaign slammed an email statement criticizing President Trump for using the word “empire.” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement that Trump intends to rule as a “dictator.”
“America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games. What does he plan to do once he regains power: rule a “united empire” as a dictator? We’re telling America exactly that,” Singer said.
President Trump has drawn widespread condemnation in the past for using anti-Semitic metaphors and slamming Jewish Americans who he says are not sufficiently supportive of him and Israel. His rhetoric has drawn comparisons to language used by Hitler, including claiming that illegal immigrants are “contaminating the blood of our country” and calling political opponents “vermin.”
At a rally in December, Trump pushed back against criticism that his rhetoric was aligned with Hitler, telling a crowd in Iowa that he had never read “Mein Kampf”.
