Trumps “America First” rhetoric is indicative of his position on both domestic and foreign policy.
I believe that throughout his campaign and throughout his presidency Trump has emphasized domestic policy. The following will further examine Trumps emphasis on domestic policy as well as his rhetoric surrounding foreign policy and its implications.
In the first 100 days of his presidency Trump signed 90 executive actions including 32 executive orders, 28 presidential memoranda and 30 proclamations, compared to the 277 executive orders that his predecessor Barack Obama signed combined throughout both of his terms as President
(Harrington 2017). Of those orders and memoranda issued the majority affect domestic policy, with a portion of those
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While implementing the Affordable Care Act was one of the most important domestic policy achievements of the Obama administration the repeal and replacement of this act is what the current president believes will be critical in his domestic policy achievements and will provide Americans with affordable healthcare. According to the president and his administration the reason for this order is grounded in domestic policy and seeks to minimize the financial burdens placed on individuals and others affected by the act (Said-Moorhouse 2017). Although, this order cannot change the current law it is inline with the president's rhetoric regarding domestic policy and a way to do this is attacking the issue that the US healthcare spending is the highest in the world and he seeks to decrease this significantly although his exact plan to do this still remains …show more content…
Where these items are still at the forefront of the Trump administration's domestic policy plan, and still hold the same “America First” rhetoric they have implications when it comes to foreign policy. The “America First” slogan also applies to the “America First” foreign policy plan in which the focus of all foreign centers on securing American interests and maintaining American security (The White House 2017). Trump's executive actions involving trade and immigration domestic policy plans have the ability to undermine economic growth by negatively affecting foreign policy in the long term. We see that the Trump administration's goals to bring stability, money and jobs back to the US are inherent in all of his orders but at what cost. This could also make his other executive orders surrounding that involve the “America First” rhetoric such as rebuilding the American military and defeating ISIS and other terrorists groups more difficult. It is hard to align to save our country when you alienate other countries that you need assistance from. It is his underlying goal with these actions to increase peace and diplomacy but limiting trade and immigration could not only damage foreign relations but also reduce the amount of people who would be considered experts in their field from joining this initiative
One of the most controversial topics in the United States in recent years has been the route which should be undertaken in overhauling the healthcare system for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. It is important to note that the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to make healthcare affordable; it provides low-cost, government-subsidized insurance options through the State Health Insurance Marketplace (Amadeo 1). Our current president, Barack Obama, made it one of his goals to bring healthcare to all Americans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This plan, which has been termed “Obamacare”, has come under scrutiny from many Americans, but has also received a large amount of support in turn for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include a decrease in insurance discrimination on the basis of health or gender and affordable healthcare coverage for the millions of uninsured. The opposition to this act has cited increased costs and debt accumulation, a reduction in employer healthcare coverage options, as well as a penalization of those already using private healthcare insurance.
Throughout the 20th century, successive presidents pursued foreign policy in different ways but with one objective and that is to make America the most powerful nation on earth. Despite the challenges of each administration during this century, presidents found a way to put American at the frontline as the undisputed super power. President Taft pursued an aggressive foreign policy by introducing dollar diplomacy which was meant to encourage U.S. investments in the Latin America and the Caribbean. He used government officials to promote this policy in hope that it will create markets for American products in the region. President Wilson made a promise to the American people that he will focus on domestic policy agenda and rarely will his administration
Rhetorical analysis assignment: President’s Address to the Nation. Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration has been calling on all citizens and all nations to support his Middle East policy. Nonetheless, the U.S. has been involved in the Middle East struggle for more than half of the century, wars were waged and citizens were killed.
...es when it comes to implementing controversial foreign policy decisions that directly affect Americans and those in different countries. The main aspect of the affair that greatly influences the United States’ government is ensuring that its past imperialistic motives do not become an integral part of American affairs once again.
On May 5, 2018, Atlanta rapper Childish Gambino released a video for his new song titled “This is America.” The video featured not-so-subtle commentary on the current gun debate in the United States and began trending quickly. Many began to wonder if a song with this much political weight could make it past the viral stage and hold its own on the music charts. One of those inquiring was Chris Molanphy, a journalist for Slate.com who often writes about popular music. He makes the claim that this song is “one of the most lyrically daring [Billboard] Hot 100 No. 1 in history.” In his article, “‘This is America,’ the Video, Is a Smash. Will the Song Have Legs?,” Molanphy uses diction, ethos, and analogy to argue that Gambino’s “This is America”
President Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Rhetorical Analysis. Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully accomplished his goal by using rhetoric to ensure our nation that we will be in safe hands. The speech is similar to ideas obtained from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to get together and take some action on the problems our country is now facing. As President Barack Obama starts his speech, he keeps himself from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ and replacing it with ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to achieve his ethos.
Trubowitz claims that the American presidents often respond to national and international events based on his or her own self interest over the course of developing grand strategy, they are likely to be motived by domestic party’s preferences instead of looking at the bigger picture. Essentially, Trubowitz choose to focus on the personal ambitions that these political figures held. It is in his opinion that grand strategy is merely a procedure for the state to meet its means and ends where the president will operate it as the product, to maximize the benefits that they will receive in their own political careers (Trubowitz, Pg1). Yet again, as Brands implied in his work, grand strategy contains more than just foreign policy agendas that the nation wish to carry out. The core of Trumbowitz’s thesis is troublesome for which it shed aggrandize spotlights on the domestic electoral factors and ignored the president’s role as the representative for the U.S.’, and the American’s seat in the international politics.
One of Trumps many promises is to remove Obamacare. Obamacare, is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which was placed into motion by our 44th president Barack Obama. Obamacare has caused employers to reduce their number of full-time employees to part-time to avoid having to provide government-approved health plans or being penalized. This isn't benefiting anyone but our former president Barack Obama.
“The beauty of me is that I am very rich” according to Donald Trump. His ignorance has lead him to do things that he shouldn’t being doing or has done. In the past few months he has been racist man that would insult people that are from a different race. When Trump started running for president he would insult and bully everybody in general not knowing the people’s stories. He made people seem like they are poor and have nothing to live for, Trump’s inability to see past his greed. He wants to separate the United States and wants people to think he is the best of the best; Trump should not be President.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
Trump's executive orders are similar to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Alien and Sedition acts were passed during John Adam's presidency in order to prepare for war with France. What the acts did was increase the time required for a person to have stayed in the U.S to obtain citizenship from 5 years to 14 years. It also required the person to tell their intents in the country 5 years prior to getting citizenship. Additionally, the acts prohibited anybody from publishing anything that was deemed scandalous or malicious towards the government, and that the president count deport anyone deemed unsafe to the country. These acts were aimed at making it harder for immigrants to obtain U.S citizenship, much like President Trump is doing with his
The Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, is a new health policy created by the American federal government. Its purpose is to make healthcare more affordable and friendly for the people. Unfortunately in some way that does not prove to be the case. It is becoming apparent that Obama may have made some misleading statements to help get the ACA put into action. The ACA is sprinkled with many flaws that call for a reform such as people’s current plans being terminated, high costs, and at minimum some people’s hours being cut by their employers.
There is an ongoing debate on the topic of how to fix the health care system in America. Some believe that there should be a Single Payer system that ensures all health care costs are covered by the government, and the people that want a Public Option system believe that there should be no government interference with paying for individual’s health care costs. In 1993, President Bill Clinton introduced the Health Security Act. Its goal was to provide universal health care for America. There was a lot of controversy throughout the nation whether this Act was going in the right direction, and in 1994, the Act died. Since then there have been multiple other attempts to fix the health care situation, but those attempts have not succeeded. The Affordable Care Act was passed in the senate on December 24, 2009, and passed in the house on March 21, 2010. President Obama signed it into law on March 23 (Obamacare Facts). This indeed was a step forward to end the debate about health care, and began to establish the middle ground for people in America. In order for America to stay on track to rebuild the health care system, we need to keep going in the same direction and expand our horizons by keeping and adding on to the Affordable Care Act so every citizen is content.
In this paper I am going to discuss the rhetorical appeals, as well as the argumentative structure, audience and purpose set forth by George W. Bush in his September 27 speech in Flagstaff, Arizona. More specifically I will refer to the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos, and explain how they are used to gain the support and attention of the audience and further the further the purpose of the speech. As I explain these appeals I will also give an insight into the argumentative structure and why it is apparent in this particular speech.
His positions on international politics are relatively innovating, sice he plans on instauring a new internationalism, as opposed to a new isolationism. Efficiency of the foreign politics, and end of the inconscious american domination.