The 2024 Donald Trump campaign posted a video ad on social media Monday that promises the “creation of a unified Reich” if he wins the 2024 presidential election in November.
According to HuffPost, “The 30-second clip imagined newspaper articles reporting on a ‘landslide’ Trump 2024 election win. One referred to ‘the creation of a unified Reich’ under the headline of ‘What’s Next For America?'”
The word “Reich” is a clear a reference to the Third Reich, which was proclaimed by German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1933 and led to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.
Shortly after the video was posted on Trump’s Truth Social site, the Biden campaign pointed out that the former president was unmistakably harkening back to Nazi Germany.
That’s not all the ad promises, Mediaite noted.
Other parts of the ad featured placeholder text about “the European great powers” and the digging of trenches next to headlines such as, “Border is closed. 15 million illegal aliens deported,” and “Peace through strength.”
The Trump campaign immediately shifted into damage control mode, with campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt insisting it was “not a campaign video” and had instead been “created by a random account” and “reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word.”
Trump himself has used Nazi-like rhetoric before, claiming that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention that Trump and his supporters are bringing up the Third Reich, which was predicated on the belief that only “pure” Aryan blood was acceptable in Germany. Such rhetoric eventually led to the deaths of 11 million innocent people who were executed by Hitler’s henchmen.
