Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald J Trump Persuasive Speech

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Donald J. Trump employs repetition, diction, and organization to achieve his goal of attracting more voters and promoting his platform to the diverse groups of American people. Mr. Trump opens his speech with immediate attempts to unite his audience with the word “we” and to try to please them, in hopes of making them more accepting of his platforms. This attempt carries over through many different parts of his speech, displaying the repetition used by Mr. Trump to get his main messages across to his audience. Mr. Trump mentions how “We are one country, one people, and we will have together one great future.” This attempt is one of the many that feature Trump using the word “we” in order to link the audience together to understand that if …show more content…

Trump’s diction raises the morale of his supporters and this further impassions them to vote for him. Trump’s word choice stirs up the crowd and further magnifies them to him, which makes Trump seem extremely popular and a candidate that everyone loves and would want as president. Trump discusses about how he is “ fighting for these forgotten Americans.” Trump sympathizes with his supporters by referring to them as forgotten Americans, which makes his supporters believe that by voting for Trump, they are voting for someone who will represent them well in the national government and will follow through with his policies that reflect their beliefs. Trump discusses his platforms with his careful diction and this helps him achieve his purpose of both solidifying his supporter base as well as reach out to new types of voters. Trump mentions how when he looks “at the failing schools, the terrible trade deals, and the infrastructure crumbling in [the] inner cities… all of [it] can be fixed… very quickly”. By not specifically mentioning in depth what he plans on doing with the problems in America, Trump is able to portray that he has a wonderful plan to bring America to greatness again. However by being vague, Trump is able to use careful diction to achieve his purpose of exciting voters of all kinds, with them only believing that trusting Trump means transforming America to being powerful again, although they do not realize that they have no idea how Trump is going to do that or whether they agree with his plans or

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