Donald Trump: Reshaping The English Language

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For the past decades, language has evolved into a number of meanings and phrases. The human language has been used to convey information and give orders. Language has built an unlimited number of phrases and sentences, and has converted words into meanings. However, having the ability to reshape language even a little bit is an extraordinary power. For the past year, President Trump has been reshaping the English language by rebranding the news to fake news.
Fake new arose during the 2016 presidential election; it spread quickly through social media and it has affected the beliefs of the American people. Last Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing ‪@nytimes, ‪@NBCNews, ‪@ABC, ‪@CBS, ‪@CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” It is not the first time a president has attacked the news media. Back in 1801, Thomas Jefferson noted to a U.S. Representative, Barnabas Bidwell of Massachusetts, “As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspaper. There were other times where president Jefferson combated with the media, I will add, that the man who never …show more content…

It dealt with the audience size at his inauguration. The White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, stated that Trump’s inauguration had one of the biggest audiences in history, even though many photos proved that was a false statement. DC Metro estimated that there were about “193,000 for Trump’s inauguration at a time when, in 2013, there were 317,000 for Obama’s second inauguration, and at the same time in 2009, there were 513,000 people” …Planners had estimated a maximum of about “900,000”expected for trump inauguration. Fox 25 reported that Homeland Security placed the number at about “800,000 to 900,000" expected...” Here is a map of what both inaugurations looked like for Obamas 2009 inauguration and president Trump inauguration this

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