Donald Trump's Influence

Trump as the president-elect has divided the country more than it has brought it’s people together. ‘There has always been hate and divisions,’ some would say. While this is true, this kind of prevalence has not been at the forefront of the political, personal, social, etc. sphere in a long while. Headlines are becoming more trigger inducing and there has been an uproar of hate crimes across the nation. While both sides have contributed to the hatefulness, the way that the hate is manifested is more rampant among supporters of Trump. This is seen through the way that the hate crime rate has gone up since November 8th. In more ways than one Trump’s election into office has given these people that have hate in them a pass, of sorts, to act on that hate and victimize others.

Throughout the first week of THE 225, many events took place within America that took the country by surprise. Trump’s inauguration was last Friday, January 20th, and already he has made drastic changes that will affect the lives of millions. His policies are based off sexist and racist claims that people have, for some odd reason, supported. With his new, corrupt policies, life in America will soon be set back decades because of his white supremacy mentality. Because of this, the nation has never been so divided since the Civil Rights Movement, something that was seemingly done with but clearly not if white supremacy becomes an issue. Although Trump’s America is not an ideal America and his claim to “Make American Great Again” implies

In their article, Polemic of Hate: How Mainstream Political Discourse Fueled the Growth in White Supremacy 2007-2012, authors Hicks and Hicks set out to show how the hate-filled political rhetoric during the election and presidency of President Obama increase the memberships to white supremacy groups. Hicks and hicks also bring attention to how their [white supremacy group’s] increase popularity allows them to make donations to political parties and campaigns, furthering their membership expansion. This article covers the various groups that have contribute to far right-wing campaigns thought to take over the political climate by inciting the public, creating smear campaigns, and using scare tactics to get the masses against our first biracial

Civil unrest is happening in the United States, again. Since starting his election, Donald Trump has managed to offend may minorities such as Muslims, Women, African Americans and Hispanics. These groups, along with many others, feel that under Trump’s leadership they will become a lesser citizen and not have the equal rights that they should be allowed. In the days after the election, there were many reports of racial threats and violence to these minority groups(The Washington Post, 2016). These seem to be coming from white supremacy groups who supported Trump during his campaign. Protesters in many U.S. cities took to the streets to chant “We reject the president elect!”(Thomson Reuters) . Immediately following

I found that a lot of what Donald Trump said and did in the first presidential debate was very interesting. The things that I found most influential and interesting was his hand gestures, his word choice and what he said. Donald Trump displays himself as a strong, fearless leader with how he looks, how he acts and what he says. Donald Trump started off as a businessman and slowly grew his company. I believe that he will be a successful leader because he created a multimillion dollar company from very little. If he could get that rich, who knows what he could do to help Americans.

The 2016 Presidential Race will come to a close on November 8, 2016. In te meantime, while you decide on who you're going to give your vote to, it's important that you learn who to (or not to) vote for.

In August 11-12th, there was a rally going on in Charlottesville, Virginia “Unite the Rally” was to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park, and there were protesters that were involved in the rally from white supremacists, white nationalists, Neo- Confederates, Neo-Nazis and many militias. Some of the marchers chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, swastikas, Confederate flags, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic  banners, and "Tump/Pence"

Class, culture, and race have always played a significant role in the election, and class specifically had astronomical impact on the election of Donald J Trump. From 1936 to 1960, it was clear that the democrat party was liked more among middle and lower class workers than those who were higher-class workers. Citizens United played a role in the election, depending on your social class, you could choose to donate more money to Trump's campaign, this in turn treated money as if it was free speech. Many US citizens have this backwards idea that the Trickle Down

Donald John Trump. Not that surprising of a topic when it comes to current leaders with a strong influence. Though, the type of influence varies. The argument is whether he will be a good leader or a bad one. Not something you can decide immediately, but not one that takes much time. I, myself, am not fond of him for three reasons. The first, his disrespect to others; the second, his disinterest in rights I believe in; the third, the influence it's had upon supporters.

IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America’s founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trump—a president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.

Trump had a really great PR night on Jimmy Fallon and for those in the media that need to call Trump a monster, being on Fallon humanizes him to the public and shows them the media isn't all that believable.

Have you ever had somebody say something to another to make them feel them a certain way? Perhaps they did something to them to make them feel happy, sad, mad, or glad. A person’s actions affect others by either uplifting or by making one upset.

On Saturday, August 12th, a white nationalist rally was held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Counter protesters were also in attendance and Donald Trump faced intense criticism for his tepid response to the violence and his failure to indict the white nationalists by name. As people search for answers, it’s worth viewing several of the major schools of thought in psychology; behaviorism, cross-cultural, and evolutionary.

On August 11th, the sleepy college town of Charlottesville, Virginia was turned into a warzone. Thousands of white nationalists descended upon the town to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, with hundreds of counter protesters in attendance to rebuff them. The rally fell apart almost as soon as it began, with the intended mission of keeping General Lee on his high horse taking an immediate backseat to intimidation and violence. Amid chants of “Jews will not replace us” and “white lives matter,” Nazi sympathizer James Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters, killing one and injuring many. The “Unite the Right” rally, as its organizers termed it, was hardly an isolated incident. It is simply a striking example of the ascendancy of white nationalism back to the main stage of American politics. How can we, as sociologists, ensure that violent extremism once banished to the fringes of society returns there? What we’ll have to do is something white nationalists never would: attempt to understand different perspectives through interpretive theory. Want to stop the next generation of white nationalists from being recruited? Understand what draws people to it in the first place.

Today, we can see racism in many places around the world especially in the United States. But, has this problem grown worse since the new president, Donald Trump, has been elected into office? I believe that Trump’s election as president has given light to white supremacist movements, in the sense that they have similar political views that Trump campaigned.