The Effects Of Political Speech

It is also interesting to note that Trump has continually criticized and threatened his own party through social media for not passing his legislation. In late August, Trump used Twitter to renew his assault on fellow Republicans in Congress, writing that he had asked Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnel, and house speaker, Paul Ryan, to attach legislation to increase the country’s borrowing limit to a bill related to veterans (Smith). Unfortunately to his dismay, McConnel and Ryan did not do it, so he took to twitter. “Now we have a big deal with Dems holding us up – could have been so easy – now a mess” (Smith).

One of the scariest things about Trump saying all these things is that there's so many people out there that think these things and when they see someone who's running for president, they feel like their opinion is validated. This causes increased racism and xenophobia amongst the population. This is dangerous because people also feel like they can also now act upon these things; for example someone may feel like it is okay to beat up a muslim because Trump, a presidential candidate, spoke openly of his racist opinion toward

In his charged oration, Farrakhan addressed his talking points to Trump and discounted the GOP leader's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" by offering his interpretation of the

When Marc Anthony addressed the crowd of plebeians, he purposely and subliminally incited violence. As he spoke about the death and murderers of Julius Caesar, he claimed, “I fear I wrong the honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar. I do fear it” (JC III.ii.152-153). By constantly mentioning that Brutus and Cassius were “honorable men,” Marc Anthony put forward the idea that maybe they weren’t as honorable as they claimed to be, since they killed the beloved Caesar for things he hadn’t committed. To persuade and manipulate weak minded and uneducated individuals such as the plebeians, Marc Anthony used Julius Caesar’s stab wounds as visual representation. After showing the crowd what the conspirators had physically done to Julius Caesar, he continued by telling them “good friends, sweet friends! Let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honorable” (JC III.ii.211-213). Like Marc Anthony, Donald Trump also took advantage of people’s emotions and subliminally encouraged the use of violence against those who presented themselves as enemies and opposed their beliefs. Trump supporters and protesters would often clash at his rallies and instead of convincing his supports to stop participating in those kinds of behavior, he encouraged it. On February 1, 2016 at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he told the crowd, “ if you see

Should Donald Trump take more responsibility and address to the nation that expressing your self negatively tower another group or individual is a hate crime?

“The government has jurisdiction over when, where, and how people exercise their free speech rights. But, government cannot control content” (ACLU). For instance, when “a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group from South Carolina, the Loyal White Knights, protested the removal of a statue [Confederate General Robert E. Lee] in Charlottesville, they were issued a permit to peacefully protest” (Difazio). Many Loyal White Knights wore robes resembling wizards and even held high confederate flags. Do they have free speech rights? Yes, but the government made a grave mistake by granting an assembly permit to one of America’s most infamous and oldest hate groups. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1 once said, “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love” (Washington State University). Although the KKK group appeared to have no ill intentions, their means of

Donald Trump could not meet the same political expectations that presidents before him had. Americans have elected experienced politicians from the beginning, and they have watched the world progressively get worse every election. The people of the United States were tired of being let down by lying politicians that had promised the moon and stars but couldn’t deliver. In an article written by A.J. Delgado it states, “But the American public has reached a tipping point- we’d rather gouge out our eyes than select another career politician or Washington insider.” This quote is one that I couldn’t agree with more. Americans finally decided for themselves that enough is enough, and we deserve a change in this

Courtesy of Michael Schere’s article, Bigots, Boasted by the Bully Pulpit, goes in discussing Trumps lack of involvement, “ Marching with the racist , fascist and separatist, he argued were some “very fine people” with a worthy mission. “Not all of those people were Neo-nazis believe me he said on Aug 15 at a press conference in the lobby of Trump tower… In the face of a fatal riot instigated by bigots- the largest demonstration of white power in at least a decade- here is a president defending the gathering, legitimizing a hateful ideology in the process.”[Michael Schere Bigots, Boasted by the Bully Pulpit ] Another sign of a rising problem, the racists see Trump as on their side, some say there is not even a problem, since Trump did not address the situation as a white nationalist gathering that lead into violence. This is what is concerning of Trumps presidency is taking us back to the past- not moving forward in an united front, but to divide us even more as a country

An African American man serving in the U.S. army along with two other soldiers was killed. The widowed wife received a call from president Trump and his words were “He knew what he signed up for”. Doesn’t really sound like something a husbandless Mother would want to hear about her late husband. Previously I spoke about the very fine people who insulted, vandalized, and even killed some people. Instead of Trump condemning them they were just “very fine people on both sides”. Our president is blind to all the things that go wrong in our country and fails to address them.

Donald Trump often time attack other politicians with his inaccurate evidences. He stupidly attacked President Obama on his birth certificate because one had to be born on American soil to become a president. At the end, the state of Hawaii released President Obama birth certificate proved that he is American, put an end to Trump’s birther movement (Nakaso). Another one from Trump’s attack was on Clinton’s emails while she was a secretary of State, even though nobody knows about the emails but he shouldn’t be pointing it out because it is her privacy and he said that she should be put in jail for them(Collison). Donald Trump’s attack connected deeply in the play The Crucible in a lot of way. When the judges demand John Proctor to sign his confession so they could nail it on the church said that Proctor is dealing with the devil, but Proctor signed it and ripped it apart because the confession was a lie. Proctor rather died than let a lie shattered his pride (Miller 1231). Proctor’s wife also accused for witchcraft because the doll found in her house. Abigail and Marry Warren set Elizabeth up so she would end up in jail

The words represent what Trump presumes he is not saying, but, he is. There has been some proof of what he is saying. For example, in 2016 for his presidential campaign he said, “Mexican immigrants as criminal and “rapist”.” That was just one thing, but there has been more than one occurrence even before he became president. This is one of many people don’t like him as president.

“The atmosphere is an unhealthy but this time its not a typical ugly political season, its highly charged, damaging, immoral and divisive. People have been brainwashed and chose their party over the country. Republicans played the race card and forced people to take sides. The message is clear, their civilization leader is Trump a barbarian, fascist, racist, fraud criminal, hypocrite, hate-monger, phony, lunatic and a sexual Predator. And now, the responsibility is on us to continue the mission of our great civil rights activists and leaders. Men and women will stand up again because we live by our principles, values and ethics.”

While also confirming that the leftist protesters were using violent means, Singer mentions that protesters involved with Antifa believe that since the Alt-Right have instigated hatred and violence against minorities, violence is the correct response, as there is no rational motivation behind the Alt-Right’s behavior, and thus there is no point in attempting to speak or reason with them (though he also mentions that there are anti-racist activists that refuse to incite violence). Singer states that Antifa is not likely to win over centrists that the Alt-Right are attempting to indoctrinate by being so plainly belligerent and aggressive, and furthers his point to include the potential danger of having two sides, fully armed, prepared to do battle in public streets, due to the nature of America’s firearm laws. Singer finally equates the current situation with events in Nazi Germany, mentioning the groups of the Communist Party’s Red Front Fighters and the Social Democrat’s Iron Front, pointing towards the clashes between these groups and Hitler’s paramilitary Sturmabteilung as a main reason towards the Nazi’s rise to power. Finally, Singer warns the “Alt-Left” of history repeating itself, and concludes that there needs to be a better response to white supremacy than the violence that Antifa is currently

This shows how many people do not agree with what Donald Trump is saying. They have to go out of their time to tell others that they do not agree with what he is saying even when they know them well enough and long enough. They have to apologize for what the president said and let it be clear he does not speak for everyone."

In this article by Nash Jenkins, Trump is outed to the world after making a mistake and lying about it. On January 12th, Donald Trump insulted Haiti, El Salvador, and parts of Africa by calling them “Shithole Countries” and saying that he didn’t want them coming to America. This, of course, did not make those specific countries very happy along with many people in The United States. After realising his mistake, Trump attempted to fix his statement by saying that it never was said. But, being that it is already out, there is no taking it back. This all led to the countries fighting back angrily to stand up for themselves and lash back at Trump.