Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday deleted a social media video in which he mentioned the phrase “united empire” after critics said it reflected the language of Nazi Germany.
The phrase “United Empire” appears as part of a virtual news article in a video announcing Trump’s hypothetical victory in the 2024 election, with the narrator asking, “What happens after Donald Trump wins?” he asks.
Under the big heading “What’s next for America?” There was a small heading that read, “Creation of a unified empire greatly increases industrial power.”
The video also predicts an economic boom, tax cuts, border security and the deportation of illegal immigrants if Trump wins the 2024 election.
A spokesperson for the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign denounced the video on Monday night, calling it “a parrot of ‘Mein Kampf.'”
“Donald Trump is not playing games,” Biden campaign press secretary James Singer said in a statement. “We are accurately communicating this to the United States.”
“To parrot ‘Mein Kampf’ and warn that there will be bloodshed if we lose is the erratic behavior of a man who knows that democracy will continue to reject his extreme vision of chaos, division and violence.” It was a missed move,” Singer continued.
In a statement to ABC News, the Trump campaign insisted that this was not a campaign video, but rather an online video that was randomly reposted by an employee who did not know the words.
“This is not a campaign video; it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who apparently did not see the words while the president was in court,” a campaign spokesperson said. Caroline Leavitt said in a statement.
The video was posted at 1:58 p.m. ET, during a lunchtime hearing in Trump’s hush money case. The video remained on President Trump’s social media pages for more than 18 hours before being deleted on Tuesday morning.
The video appears to have been created using an existing video template that mimics an old newspaper, with several parts of the template referencing historical dates and events.
The template includes a mock news article that reads, “Industrial power increased significantly in 1871 with the creation of a unified empire,” but the reference to 1871 is blurred in the video shared by President Trump. I couldn’t see it because it had been cut.
President Trump has repeatedly faced similar criticism over the past year for echoing the words of Nazi Germany and fascist leaders. At a rally last November, he likened his own political opponents to vermin to be “eradicated.”
President Trump has also repeatedly said that illegal immigrants “contaminate our nation’s blood,” a phrase he used to describe white supremacists and the “blood poisoning” he infamously wrote about in his book “Mein Kampf.” It has attracted criticism from critics who say it was used by Hitler.
Trump later claimed he had never read “Mein Kampf” and said he used such words “in a completely different sense” when disparaging illegal immigrants.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Chang also denied the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini last year, calling them “absurd claims.”
“It is clear that the people who try to make such ridiculous claims are idiots who are trying to hang on to anything because they have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and their sad and pathetic existence is It will be shattered if President Trump returns to the White House,” Chan said.
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