Donald Trump's Satire

In general, hubris is defined as having excessive pride or overconfidence, which can eventually lead to a downfall. In the past, Greeks described hubris as direct defiance of the gods wishes, however, the meaning of hubris has developed over time. Today, hubris is seen more as having a lack of humility or blind arrogance that leads an individual to believe that they are above typical human limitations, essentially godlike. One such individual that exhibits this ill-appealing quality is the current president of the United States, Donald Trump. Over the last couple of years, and since beginning his term in office, President Trump has displayed excessive pride, arrogance, and self-confidence through his political rallies, press conferences, demeaning tweets, and much more. Unlike the leaders before him, our president is simply “…a real estate developer known for golf courses, casinos, and a Moscow beauty pageant; he’s a gambler with other people’s money who exhibits poor judgment” (Blake, “Trump Sharing Highly Classified Information with Russia Shows His Extreme Hubris”). Examining President Trump’s decisions and the examples of hubris presented in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannus”, Andrew George’s “The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian” and the “Holy Bible: New International Version”, shows that his hubristic character will result in a tragic end for him and the entire nation alike.

In the past several years, there have been many occurrences of conflict between different nations, about their nationality and being stripped of their own birth place. The United States has a tendency to associate themselves in the center of these foreign affairs. The United States, in order to maintain good economic relations and their super power status, feels the need to always get involved and provide support for the country they believe is receiving unjust treatment. Recently, Vladmir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, took over the formerly Russian region of Crimea. The Crimean people voted in a referendum to separate from Ukraine and for Russia to annex

When looking at the concept of authority, Vladimir Putin does not have a problem as he is the elected President of a large and influential country—Russia. As such Putin uses his position as a Head of State to try and enhance his authority by calling for unity between the two countries. This op-ed was printed in the foremost newspaper in the U.S. on September 11, 2013. It is on this date that Americans celebrate their resolve and unity. To the global population, this authority would be enough to lend him credibility; but to a skeptical American populous, this could be seen as an outsider taking advantage of a

American satire is widely recognized around the world in television, movies and many books. American satire was established in the early eighteenth century and blossomed in the nineteenth century. Satire is the use of humor, exaggeration as well as irony to divulge and criticize people’s vices especially in the context of contemporary. It specializes in gaining the necessary entertainment from politics. Becoming more visible and noticeable in the 1960s, American Satire started to get a lot of attention from many Americans in the country.

Many people believe that the presidency is a sacred institution and no one should be allowed to make fun of Donald Trump who is the current president of the United States. However, the First Amendment does not exist so people can praise the public officials; it exists so people can criticize them. Therefore, the use of satire against the president should not be prohibited if so, censorship would take place. Satire is a harmless way to critic an issue, organization, or an individual in power in an exaggerated and humorous way, it is also a protected form of speech, and speech is not a privilege; is a right. Furthermore, before becoming president, Donald Trump allowed people to use satire against him, by being part of it.

observed Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, the White House speechwriters finally found the right balance between candor about problems and encouragement for healthy change. The speeches were upbeat and avoided crowing about American victories even as they gave a push for causes on the American agenda. Reagan spoke to prominent writers, artists, and musicians at the writer’s clubs and praised the achievements of glasnost and pressed for publication of some still banned works. Each of Reagan’s public appearances were before an important group, but his address to the student and faculty at Moscow University was the centerpiece of his trip. His theme was freedom, which electrified his audience. The prolonged standing ovation was a testament to his appeal to the Russian audience. Reagan thus exuded that positive, forward looking, and optimistic outlook which made the Russian populace look at the US from an entirely different angle. But it took a question from a reporter to make his optimism shine through; as he and Gorbachev were walking through the red square, a Journalist asked the inevitable question: do you still consider this an Evil Empire? Reagan replied, ’no… That was another time, another era.’ Thus just in that particular moment, Ronald Reagan transformed himself from an enemy to a friend. Here, it would be unjust to deny Gorbachev his due share of credit, as without his eagerness to greet Reagan with open arms, the world would not have seen the flags of freedom that were spreading its colors throughout the USSR. In his memoir, Gorbachev showed his happiness over Reagan’s comments when he said that Gorbachev deserved most of the credit for changes in the Soviet Union. The idea that ordinary people everywhere have the same aspirations was the bedrock of Reagan’s ideals, and that those ideals prevailed finally shows the strength of Ronald Reagan’s convictions. Reagan was a rock star, and he made the Russian people feel that he

Vladimir Putin has grown over the past few years to become one of America’s biggest concerns. Specifically in Syria where the United States and Russian influences are directly opposed to each other we can see how the use of language and rhetoric have played a role, Putin told the French media that the accusations against Russia were “rhetoric that did not take into account the realities in Syria”. Putin seems to believe a different reality that we have come to believe in the United States and he is trying to use the same rhetoric again and again to dismiss what is happening in Syria. I think Putin has done a great job to appear authoritarian within his own country, at the same time he seems to try and act collaborative outside of Russia’s borders.

Jessica Taylor of NPR talks about how Donald Trump 's praise towards the Russian President Vladimir Putin is creating controversy once again after his interview on Thursday to state-funded Russian Television. It is pretty obvious to the everyday American that the U.S. lags behind Russia in the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and that as America 's global influence diminishes, a potential nuclear war with Russia could have earth-shattering effects. With these rising tensions and a nuclear war threatening on the horizon, one would imagine a President to work to relieve the possible threat. No President since Ronald Reagan has made efforts to work, or possibly find an ally within Russia. Over the past 8 years, President Obama has made no efforts to relieve this fear, and repair the fracture between the United States and Russia that has been intensifying since the beginning of the Cold War.

When Obama was president he assumed that, because Russia is a declining power, he did not need to pay attention. However, a weak, insecure

SUMMARY: As of 26JUL17, major international players are warning the U.S. against imposing further sanctions on Russia, saying that doing so could further isolate America from the world community. EU President Jean-Claude Juncker issued a warning to the U.S. stating that the “bloc would act “within days” if it doesn’t get assurances that new sanctions wouldn’t significantly impact European interests. The economic bloc worries that American sanctions developed without their input could jeopardize the continent’s energy security.

Trump’s close ties with Russia have been unsettling to many and Putin’s announcement of a willingness to reconcile after Trump’s election even more so. Before Trump’s apparent friendship with President Vladimir Putin, American leaders have usually been standoffish toward Russian leaders. The tensions of the Cold War were never resolved, simply placed on the back burner when the Soviet Union fell, which left a lot of loose ties and unsaid words between the two countries. It is possible that Trump could secure a new alliance with Russia and Putin, but history has proven this task might be a tough process- while our leaders may be close, people from both countries have reservations, vividly remembering the Cold War and the terror at the possibility of annihilation at the hands of a country across the

On March 11, 1990 through December 25, 1991, an event happened that the world had been trying to cause for decades: the fall of the Soviet Union. Major steps had been taken the decade prior by Ronald Reagan that improved the US’s relationship with the USSR, even despite their frosty beginnings; after all, at the beginning of his presidency, Reagan called Konstantin Chernenko’s Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’ (Talbott 1). However, when George H.W Bush took office, he began by reevaluating his strategic policy to form his own plan, not by simply following Reagan’s policies from his time in office. The decade before, Gorbachev had loosened the reigns of Communism , so much so that it was being overthrown all across Eastern Europe, most notably with

Today's drift toward war with Russia seems like a replay of the past. Putin is a Russian nationalist, who believes in a strong Stalinist state. His goal is to reverse the events of 1989--the end of the Soviet state and dissolution of its enormous empire. He seeks to do this by using what remains of Russia's Stalinist heritage: the military, a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons and immense resources of natural gas and other forms of energy. These are powerful tools to wield against the various weak states that were part of the U.S.S.R. None has nuclear weapons,

Russia lost many allies in the Middle East, and Putin will not make the same mistakes again, even if it means another World War. Russia will fight against globalization. And you, in turn, will make Americans spill blood because of your recklessness.

The President of the United States is largely regarded as the most powerful political leader in the world. He is the commander in chief of the world’s most advanced military, and the leader of the largest global economy (Meacham 2008). Due to these influences, as well as other duties held to the American people, it is improper and harmful to have a president who is beholden to another sovereign entity. In exchange for aid in being elected, the Russian government could expect the new president to help them in return; a quid pro quo relationship resulting in lifted sanctions and trade deals that might not be in the best interest of the United States. Russia might also expect the president to turn a blind eye to further improprieties and conquests, similar to the 2014 annexation of Crimea, or influence global attitudes toward the Russian government. The knowledge that the president was elected with the help of the Russian government can also cause allies to question the motives of new policies and decisions, harming our global relationships. Finally, and most importantly, the trust of the people of the United States in their