Rhetorical Analysis: Donald Trump

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.

In class we have established that the President plays a huge role in our foreign affairs with other countries. It is his responsibility to meet with other world leaders and establish treaties that will benefit all. However, President Trump is without a doubt a man of business rather a man of politics. And when he starts to change the nature of the rules when conducting business with other countries, not everyone is always in agreement.

President Donald Trump announced an extremely important policy that he wanted to an enact… through the popular social media site called Twitter. A summarization of what his tweet means is as follows; Transgender individuals are a disruption to the victory of the military. This message provoked outrage and, consequently, little approval nationwide. In order to formulate his message, President Donald Trump used the tool of rhetorical appeals. As stated by Doug Downs, Aristotle observed that people usually made three kinds of appeals: to logic, to emotion, and to a rhetor’s credibility (Downs 469). Emotional appeals, also called pathos, toy with a reader’s feelings, through the use of manipulative claims, in order to convince the reader of something

With all the research and reviews on Trade Agreements, it has been interesting to read that the U.S. President, Donald Trump continues to baffle the world including the Republican Party, over how he plans to honor his campaign elected political agenda, which vowed to scrap away years of American Trade Policies, with hopes of reestablishing domestic manufacturing jobs. Subsequently, Allegations streamed from the president’s cabinet that provided insights on his the plans not to go forth with renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), yet in March, 2017, the president changes directions to revamp the so called “job-killing disaster” policy for a more favorable US deal instead – this on-again, off-again, flip-flop behavior appears uneventful, to say the least.

Every four years’ citizens above the age of 18 get a chance to be a part of one of the single most important rights of being an American. And this right must be determined by two standing candidates in this year’s presidential election. These two candidates have had their up’s and down’s but no matter what we think as an American voter we must choose at least one. To understand each candidate there must be a critique of their trustworthiness, logic, and emotional appeals.

In less than a few months, the election session will be upon us again. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is running his campaign on the ballot of “Make America Great Again.” These four words are quite amazing, and yet dangerous. As Trump travels from state to state announcing his platform, people are shouting these words “Make America Great Again.” Essentially, at the core of his rhetoric is the idea that America has never been great. For Trump, I imagine, “Making America Great Again” is coded for “Making America White Again”, although everything in America was built by African Americans. I open with this brief introduction because this is the same argument that is made in a religious context.

On July 21, 2016, at the Republican National Conventions, one of the longest acceptance speeches was given by Donald Trump (USA Today). Clocking in at about an hour and fifteen minutes, Donald Trump’s speech made the crowd chant almost constantly with different facts he threw out, even if the facts weren’t one hundred percent truthful. No matter who he may have appealed to the using logos and ethos, his credibility and honesty were not the finest, destroying the effectiveness.

Social media gives users the opportunity to build an online persona through posting of content such as text, images, links or through interaction with others. The way in which users present themselves is a type of behavior usually determined by differences in demographic or psychologic traits. Aristotle defines ethos as the charisma and the credibility of a speaker. When it comes to Mr. Trump, the main argument in favor of his credibility and reputation is his image of the businessman who managed to build the tremendous real-estate empire. President Donald Trump uses Twitter to break news, share his views and feud with critics and celebrities at all times of day or night. It can be hard to keep up — below are some of his noteworthy tweets since he became president.

In the Inaugural Address made by Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, he talks about his plans for being the President of the United States. Being our current president, everything Donald Trump does or says is on the minds of the citizens. This is also very important because Donald Trump was able to win his way through a presidential election, even though he was more known for his business skills rather than his political skills. Donald Trump wrote this piece to connect with everyone in the United States and explain how he will fix all of America’s problems and “Make America Great Again.” In order to talk about how it will always be America first from now on, connect with the American people, and explain how America will now take action to

The Iraq war was an issue that started in 2003 that had taken over America. Citizens were conflicted with sending their own to a foreign country to solve an issue that had nothing to do with their own nation. Four years later into the war, Senator Barack Obama and his constitutes attend a meeting where Obama was to give a floor speech to George W. Bush. During the speech, Obama expresses the use of Aristotle’s Appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos, along with Kairos in order to convince the president to pull their troops out of Iraq.

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,

Donald Trump recently gave a speech discussing rising Radical Islamic Terrorism, immigration from the Middle East, and a need for a rise in national security while Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13th 2016. He centers his whole speech around discussing how bad a President his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in difficult times. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968 with a bachelor 's degree in economics, and has become a very successful businessman. He’s the Republican nominee for this upcoming presidential election, and is a very controversial candidate and person. He has come under fire for many of his views that he discusses in his June 13th speech. While Trump does make some agreeably points, he renders his speech ineffective because of his heavy reliance on Clinton’s opinion to form his own. If Trump were to become President, his stance on important issues would need to be reached with careful consideration, and not just based on doing the opposite of his opponents.

This article was mainly about Donald Trump passing a comment that the media is questioning about. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally. This comment has left many media personas wondering what he meant by that comment. However, it is written in the article that Trump refused to clarify his comment. The article then goes on to mention about how Trump

Throughout the election process, and part of his term as president, Obama has received much flack for the legitimacy of his status as a natural born citizen. During President Obama's Correspondents Dinner in 2011 he pokes fun at the running accusations that he is not a natural born citizen and with the media's fixation in covering the news. One of the most well known and influential people involved with these claims is Donald Trump.

The ad paints Mr. Trump as unpresidential and unfit for office, in the eyes of both children, and their voting parents. The Clinton campaign is continuing to focus its negative advertising efforts on the provocative remarks made by Donald J. Trump, this time in a commercial that invites adults to imagine what a child might be learning from his campaign. Where they see his acidic comments being played, the screen is filled with close-ups of children gazing at television sets repeatedly throughout the ad, seemingly soaking up every rude, racist, and misogynistic remark.