Trump deletes social media video about his election victory with references to the “United Empire” after receiving heated backlash

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday deleted a social media video that mentioned the phrase “United Reich” after his critics said the phrase mirrored that of Nazi Germany.

The phrase “United Empire” appears as part of hypothetical news articles in the video touting Trump’s hypothetical victory in the 2024 election, with the narrator asking, “What happens after Donald Trump wins?”

Underneath a large headline that reads, “WHAT'S NEXT FOR AMERICA?” There is a smaller headline that appears to read, “INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED BY CREATION OF UNIFIED EMPIRE.”

The video then predicts an economic boom, tax cuts, border security and the deportation of undocumented immigrants if Trump wins the 2024 election.

A spokesman for the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign criticized the video Monday night, saying it “parrots Mein Kampf.”

“Donald Trump doesn’t play games; “He is telling America exactly what he intends to do when he regains power: to rule as a dictator over a 'unified empire,'” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer wrote in a statement.

“Parroting 'Mein Kampf' while warning of bloodbath if you lose is the kind of bumbling behavior you get from a man who knows that democracy continues to reject his extreme vision of chaos, division and violence.” , Singer continued.

In a statement to ABC News, the Trump campaign claimed it was not a campaign video but 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 account online 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 p.m. ET as the trial in Trump's hush money trial was on its lunch break. The video was removed Tuesday morning after existing on Trump's social media page for more than 18 hours.

The video appears to have been created using an existing video template that resembles an old newspaper, with several parts of the template referencing historical dates and events.

In the template, a fake news article appears to say, “Industrial strength increased significantly in 1871, fueled by the creation of a unified empire,” although the reference to 1871 was not visible in the video shared by Trump because it was blurred and edited.

Over the past year, Trump has repeatedly faced similar criticism for repeating words from Nazi Germany or fascist figures, including during a rally last November when he compared his political opponents to “vermin” that he would “exterminate.” become.

Trump has also repeatedly said that undocumented immigrants “poison the blood of our country” – drawing criticism from critics who say the language is used by white supremacists and Hitler, who infamously wrote about “blood poisoning” in his book “Mein Kampf.”

Trump later claimed he had never read Mein Kampf and said he uses that language “in a very different way” when denigrating undocumented immigrants.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung also rejected the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini last year, calling it a “ridiculous claim.”

“Those who make this ridiculous claim are obviously wimps who will grab anything because they suffer from Trump syndrome and their sad, pathetic existence will be destroyed if President Trump returns to the White House,” Cheung said.

Copyright © 2024 ABC News Internet Ventures