Analysis Of Donald Trump's Speech

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Christians are being persecuted more than ever and its time we put an end to it. Donald Trump gives a look into Christians in Syria, “You look at Syria, where if you’re Christian they are chopping off heads” (Trump). As a country we need to group together under Christianity because we are not unified. In Donald Trump’s video at Liberty University, he discusses how Christianity is under siege and we need to unite as a country and take back Christian principles. Many other topics are discussed during this video. Trump touches upon how we have a weak general who is not willing to attack ISIS, which is not good for our country. I believe that Trump is very influential and effective with the speech he delivers. He uses quite a few strong appeals and direct quotations from the Bible that relates to Liberty University where he is delivering this speech. Liberty University is a …show more content…

In doing so it makes his speech well rounded and appeal to different people. He uses his example of Christians in Syria as a pathos appeal since it appeals to emotions. He quotes the bible to build credibility as an ethos appeal. Trump uses the percentages of Christians in the United States as a logos appeal to provide validity in his statement. I strongly believe that Trumps speech is definitely convincing. I already believed this before, but watching this video definitely made me realize even more how Christianity is diminishing. We need to unite and become a good Christian country. Also besides the main point he presents we also need to look at what he touches upon at the end. Do we really need a general like this serving? Someone who is not willing to go forward and attack ISIS head on and destroy them. As a country we have become weak as Trump presents. We need to be able to have someone strong that is able to knock some fear into the enemy’s

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