U.S. President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor and likely election opponent Donald Trump of using Nazi rhetoric following the publication of a video referencing a “unified Reich.’’

“Trump is using Hitler’s language. That’s not America’s,” Mr Biden said in a campaign video released.

In the short clip, the Democrat held a phone in his hand and said, referencing the video, “Is this on his official account? Wow.”

Earlier, on Monday, Mr Trump shared a video, which was later deleted, on his social media site, Truth Social, mocking newspaper articles that would be written if he won the presidential election in November.

A subheading referring to creating a unified Reich was among the bits of text featured. The term in German is often associated with the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945.

According to U.S. media, the word ‘Reich’ in the video presumably refers to the founding of the German Reich in 1871. The text was taken from a Wikipedia entry on World War I.

The video was created using a ready-made newspaper article mask, which, according to reports, has also been used in other clips circulating online. Other newspaper headlines in the video published on Mr Trump’s platform also refer to World War I.

Mr Trump’s team later confirmed that the clip had been removed from his account.

A spokeswoman for his campaign team said that “it 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.’’

Mr Biden also attacked the Republican, hoping to return to the White House, at a campaign event in Boston on Tuesday. The 81-year-old said that “the threat that Trump poses is greater in the second term than in the first,’’ according to reporters travelling with him.

He called Mr Trump a little unhinged and accused him of seeking revenge after losing the 2020 presidential election.

Mr Biden and Mr Trump were all but guaranteed to face off on November 5 in a rematch of the 2020 vote. They both achieved the required number of delegates to be nominated as candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively.

Mr Trump has been using radical rhetoric in his election campaign, including hateful and dehumanising language, as well as making racist statements and inciting hatred against minorities.

The 77-year-old also compared Mr Biden’s government to the Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany. 

(dpa/NAN)