'Trump is threatening violence on Americans:' Internet pounces on ex-president's new video

Donald Trump on Saturday shared a video that purports to be about his "virtues," but political onlookers said it is about more than that.

Trump posted the video on Saturday. Titled "Trump's virtues," the video opens with Thomas Klingenstein, self identified as a writer, a playwright, and an investor, calling on those who "can't stand" Trump to support the former president nonetheless.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance sounded the alarm about the video hours after it was published.

"This is an utterly astonishing message for a candidate for the presidency to embrace. And, just a clue, it's not about virtues," she said on social media. "It starts with a command-even if you can't stand Trump, you must get behind him. Has any candidate ever run like that? It gets worse."

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But Vance wasn't the only one.

Attorney Daniel Miller said, "Trump is threatening violence on Americans."

“We are in a war fighting an enemy of revolutionaries that kick and spit on America…This war is a contest between those who love America and those who hate it. But we do not have a Commander-in-Chief. You can’t win a war without one," the lawyer quoted from the video.

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade called the video "a master class in disinformation tactics."

"Demonizing and scapegoating others, embodying every man yet claiming to be godly in ability, exploiting patriotism, portraying the most extreme parts of the left as equal to the whole, and suggesting that desperate times call for desperate measures," she added. "When we can see through the tricks, they can be neutralized."

@BorisTrump6 on X also joined in:

"This was 'retruthed' by Trump on TS. It's scary," the individual says of the video. They continue:

"Plays like parody, but isn't. It highlights, over and over, that Trump is such a dreadful choice for president, yet calls these serious failings of the man himself and what he stands for, virtues. OMFG."