United States President Donald Trump shared a video Sunday of a confrontation between opposition protesters and supporters of his government in which a man praises "white power", before eliminating it after the protests it sparked.

"Thanks to the great people at The Villages," Trump tweeted about the filming. "The radical left does nothing. Democrats will fall."

The filming, apparently made in the retirement community The Villages, in Florida, shows a man driving a golf cart with the signs "Trump 2020" and "America First" repeatedly shouting "white power" and to which a protester he rebukes by treating him as "racist".

Trump tweeted the video shortly after 7:30 a.m. But at 11 in the morning it was no longer visible on his Twitter account.

The president has been repeatedly accused of stoking racial tensions, even amid protests across the country following the death of African-American George Floyd by a white cop just a month ago.

As early as June 2017, referring to the clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-racists in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, the president had declared that there were "very good people on both sides."

The Villages' video sparked an immediate backlash on social media, and Trump's allies were pressured to refer to him on Sunday morning talk shows.

The only black senator from the Republican Party, Tim Scott, interviewed on CNN's "State of the Union" program, called the video "offensive."

"I think it's indefensible. We should remove it. That's what I think," he said.

Also on CNN, Trump Health Secretary Alex Azar claimed he had not seen the images or Trump's tweet.

"But obviously the president, his administration, or myself would never support white supremacy or discrimination of any kind," he said.

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