Donald Trump's Narrative Analysis

The “disturbances of collective order” (Durkheim 1915, 246) or norms with spikes in unemployment and increased competition in labor market could have resulted in what Durkheim referred to as anomic suicide. People’s lives have been greatly impacted and they are uncertain of the future in America. Trump argues that immigrants pose a competition in labor market and he promised to bring jobs back for American workers or the White working class. It’s harder for them to live with the decline of jobs because in the old economic order, White workers have greater opportunities for growth. When their expectation of themselves in the society is threatened, Trump’s promise

There are even more people engrossed in Trump's campaign as his contentious rhetoric is spreading and becoming exponentially obscene. His words foreshadow what he'd do if he were president. My teachers have said that they "don't care" if Trump becomes president because "he wouldn't have any power, thanks to Congress." Obviously, that's false, and as we all have seen, his divisive words have been significantly detrimental to unification in this country - and he's not even in charge. I can imagine how he'd undermine the liberties granted by this country from the start. As he gains more advocates for becoming President of the U.S.A, I'm sure everyone else will be even more surprised by what he has to say because he'll have more leeway for his

With the impending election looming closer and closer, the approach of the presidential throne seems to elicit a plethora of opinions on who is the most viable candidate. However, the candidate that has caused controversy at every angle possible is none other than Donald Trump. Famous for his extreme affluence and most notably his TV drama, The Apprentice, President-elect Donald Trump has integrated his unctuous persona into his campaign. The San Diego Union Tribune’s article on Donald Trump, “…Great Power and Greater Irresponsibility”, introduces us with the possibility that Donald Trump is not the “Make America Great American” man he claims to be, and in fact he is the exact opposite. While for some Americans, his aversion to political correctness is admirable and induces a strong support; many are adverse to his social conduct and view his idiosyncrasies polar to the fabric of the Constitution. The article brings forth a target audience of both non-supporters and supporters alike in grave attempt to eradicate this supposed allure of Trump.

Donald trump is a wedge in the coggs of progress. His inauguration proves that much. He masks divisiveness with a thin film of lies like a blanket draped over a bear. He lies openly and his mindless followers eat it all up like moths to a flame. Yet his style is clear and understandable and his message is clear, as well.

Throughout the their article “Donald Trump, Abortion Foe, Eyes ‘Punishment’ for Women, Then Recants” by Matt Flegenhiemer and Maggie Haberman analyzed Donald Trump recent comments the he made recently about his feelings about abortion. While I wasn’t surprised to hear this come out of Donald Trump mouth, I was slightly surprised of the reaction that came out of it. Especially from his opposing candidates and anti abortion settlements. I did find it interesting that his opposing candidates had something to say against it, even though all of the Republican candidates are strongly pro-life. So that does that even make a case? Not really.

If President Donald Trump’s actions and intents represent the opposite of economic logic, then what would lead 62,979,879 people to vote for him. Trump’s plan for winning has many parts, but for starters, he largely focused on reviving the lower and middle class’ hopes, spirits, and incomes. The first part of this plan regards the specific language that he utilizes when speaking to the non-wealthy Americans. He is notable for repeating statements such as, “America doesn’t have victories anymore” or “they’re laughing at us”. By utilizing statements such as these, Trump is appealing to his audience’s emotions and implementing scare tactics that will place the listener in a frightened state. He then paints himself as the answer to the fears that

Donald trump is a very successful businessman and Republican nominee for President; he has attracted many people towards himself, some happy with him and some with hatred for him. The author explained how Trump was under heavy criticism when he wrote “Trump came under heavy criticism when he attacked Khizr Khan, the father of U.S. Army captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq.” Not only did Trump attack Khizr he also insulted their religion, which caused anger throughout the country. Khan, who is a captain in the U.S. Army responded by criticising him about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and gave out an emotional speech against Trump. Donald Trump criticising Khan was not the only time he dishonored American heroes, but he also

When brought up the discussion of sexually assaulting women Donald Trump used red herring to avoid the topic. Trump apologizes apathetically, "Yes, I'm very embarrassed by it, I hate it, but it's locker room talk and it's one of those things -- I will knock the hell out of Isis." (7:30-7:39). In the first place he doesn't address what "it" is that he is apologizing for, whether it is his words or actions. Furthermore, he had moved straight into the issue of Isis to redirect the crowd into new discussion: however, it didn't work because Anderson Matthews had brought back the subject. Then, Clinton uses a pattern of three to convey how she and many others felt on the subject. Clinton powerfully states, "Donald talking about women, what he thinks

Recent remarks by Donald Trump are pretty dark. It was easy to shrug off when the celebrity first caught a lead in the primary polls. Media contributors casually called it an early election-cycle phenomena, with references to the Godfather of pizza Herman Cain and his brief rise and hard fall. All the usual caveats about primary battles occurring such a long way from Iowa have been made. Republican strategists brush it aside. “Trump is an entertainer, that gave him high name recognition and an instant following. Eventually, party loyalists will, respectfully, choose a more substantive candidate.”

As he continued with his explanation he began to use the straw man fallacies. Somehow the conversation shifted from generating jobs to China devaluing currency. He “claims” that China is using us to rebuild their country and continues to say that we have no politicians to fight their actions. It is completely off topic but yet he also does this again where he brings up child care out of nowhere and persists to give irrelevant statements that lingers the initial question. Donald Trump uses a particular rhetoric appeal to persuade his audience which I believe to be pathos. For example: during certain segments of his claims the inflation in his voice rises when he attempts to counter a claim. Pathos refers to using emotiono to get your point across and that is all Donald Trump would exhibit. Trump would interrupt and/or overspeak Hillary

[Abstract]In the 2016 American presidential election, Donald Trump, who has been dampening down since his announcement of running for president, beat his opponent Hilary Clinton, being elected as the next president of the United State, which was seen as a political miracle. As we know, rhetoric plays a vital role in western society, and it is even more closely interconnected with the western political life. The rhetoric resources were divided into three parts in the western classical rhetoric. They are logos, pathos and ethos. And Aristotle has long put forward that ethos is the controlling factor of persuasion. From a perspective of ethos of western rhetoric, this paper is to illustrate the core theory of ethos and to focus on the Donald Trump’s first public speech running for presidency, and then to make an in-depth analysis on how Trump constructed his identity and character through the use of ethos strategies in his speech and thus earned great popularity and more voters’ support. This paper is intended to point out the decisive role of ethos in persuasion.

On September 26, 2016, the first of four debates was hosted by Hofstra University in New York. The debate was between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump. This was a much anticipated debate because it was not only the first of four, but it was the first time for divided America to pick a side and candidate that they could identify with after the primaries were over and we were left with these two options. These two candidates were asked questions by moderator Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News.

One example of a story of difference that is used to perpetuate oppression in today’s society, is the controversial remarks given by Donald Trump when speaking of immigrants coming from Mexico. According to the Associated Press, Donald Trump stated that Mexico sent the United States, its immigrants who carry numerous problems (drugs, rape, crime, etc.) for America to solve (2015). Donald Trump further stated that the United States had become a dumping ground for other people’s problems (Associated Press, 2015). These comments initially sparked widespread outrage and confusion by the public, while few hesitantly agreed with the presidential candidate. Although organizations such as NBC and Univision ended their business relations with Trump,

The article I read Talks about how Donald trump has gotten away with lying many times and he doesn't seem like he is going to stop. His most recent accusation involves claiming that millions of people voted illegally in the election polls and thats why he did not win the popular vote. There is no evidence for this claim and as it seems that Donald Trump is lying about it. According the a study while Trump was campaigning only sixteen percent of what Trump says is completely accurate. This lying is going to take a play in his presidency as he has already denied the factual evidence that fewer people came to his inauguration ceremony then to Obamas inauguration ceremony. The article talks about how its saddening that a present talks with such

Donald Trump’s speech addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017 was not effective. Despite the speech having a universal message that is hard to disagree with, you can tell exactly which parts of the speech were written by a speech writer, and which parts of the speech were written by Trump himself. This wouldn’t be an issue if Donald Trump’s inflections weren’t full of fallacies and unnecessary statistics. For example, in the third paragraph, President Trump tries to establish his Ethos by listing improvements in the United States since he took office. But many of these cherry-picked improvements have absolutely nothing to do with him being elected. They also have nothing to do with the general theme of the speech. This speech did have examples of effective rhetorical strategies. However, the bad far outweighs the good in this speech and takes away from the good message it originally had.