Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald Trump

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In the summer of 2015, a large crowd begins to gather in front of Trump Tower, in New York City, as a large and powerful man stands in front with podium and microphone before him. Making his final words of his speech, the words "Make America Great Again!", are echoed across the crowd as Donald Trump has announced his running in the United States election of 2016. Looking at America's great past presidents, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt; one has always been able to pull the characteristics that allowed them to earn that privilege. For example, when looking at the first American president, George Washington, the American people always respected his intelligence, honor, and love for his own people. Now that America …show more content…

Looking at the recent events that have taken place at Trump's political rallies, one will see a certain category of people that are against Trump, and those are the protestors. Mixed with many different people, and of different backgrounds, people gathered together with the same ideals that go against Donald Trump's platform. For one individual, according to CNN.com, who traveled to the United States from the African nation of Djibouti where Ali Ali grew up in fear of persecution, feels that "Trump's rhetoric about Muslims, including for a database to track Muslim-Americans, is no different from the persecution of Jews decades ago," (Lee et al., "Why I'm Voting for Trump"). When reading this quote, especially from someone that has grown up in the fear of persecution, it does not show a quality of any American president, but of a characteristic of an authoritarian leader, in other words a …show more content…

For instance, former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has thrown away the Republican candidacy to put full support behind Donald Trump. Despite much political mudsling that went between this former presidential candidates with the frontrunner of his party, seemed to have "buried the hatchet", as Ben Carson puts it. According to Ben Carson, he decided that the race was "not about [him]. It's not about Mr. Trump. This is about America" (Lee and Scott, "Ben Carson Endorses Donald Trump"). When analyzing the words of Ben Carson, he shows that Donald Trump is the man for the people. Furthermore, he brings this idea that Donald Trump is not the same man that is shown on the media, as he explained the "more reserved and 'cerebral' man who 'sits there and considers things very carefully'" (Lee and Scott, "Ben Carson Endorses Donald Trump"). Though portrayed as a loud mouth, aggressive man, maybe the reserved Trump would make an excellent president one day, as a president whom does not think carefully could lead his country to war or to

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