Stephen Colbert has new slogan for Trump after ‘unified Reich’ Truth Social post

Stephen Colbert has taunted the Trump campaign after the posting of a video that included a reference to the “creation of a unified Reich”if Mr Trump returns to the White House in November.

“Trump posted a video touting how great a second Trump term would be ending with ‘MAGA!!’,” Late Show host Colbert explained. “But in grayscale underneath is the headline: ‘Industrial strength significantly increased driven by the creation of a unified Reich’.”

“Unified yike,” the host reacted. “That’s not a dog whistle that’s a whistle made of dog.”

Posted on Monday evening, the 30-second clip showed several hypothetical news headlines in the event that Mr Trump wins the presidential election in November, beating Democrat President Joe Bide.

“It’s a landslide!” faux newspaper clippings display in the video “Trump wins!!”.

The next headline states, “What’s next for America?,” along with a photograph of the former president staunchly holding up a fist to a backdrop of the American flag.

But looking closer at the pretend article in the back, the wording states the problematic sentence including the “unified Reich.”

“Reich” derives from the Germanic word “realm”, referring to an empire. It also carries the connotation of Germany’s former dictator Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich, another name for his Nazi regime.

Pointing out that the same headline appears underneath the acronym “MAGA!!,” Mr Trump’s long-standing slogan ‘Make America Great Again,’ Colbert jokingly suggests it now stands for something different.

“Evidently, MAGA now stands for Make America Germany Around 1938,” he quipped.

A spokesperson for Mr Trump said of the post: “This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who