Rhetorical Analysis On Donald Trump

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President Trump plans to “make American great again.” In his first 100 days in office, he has muscled his executive power to capitalize on the promises he has made to his voters and the American people. During his campaign, the then Republican Presidential Nominee, Donald J. Trump made waves of promises to make the country great again. He promised to build a “great wall,” repeal Obama Care, withdraw the US from NAFTA and other international pacts, end ISIS, and a plethora of other grand, but empty promises. Like empty promises, the majority of Trump’s policies have been meaningless and a bad joke. What is not a joke is, Trump and his supporters’ view and rhetoric on immigration. From the very beginning, Trump and his supporters called for …show more content…

To add more fuel to his supporters’ xenophobic fire, Trump favored curbing foreign, non-immigrant workers through the H-1B Visa program because he and his supporters consider the program as a “theft of American prosperity”. Now, as President of the United States, Donald Trump signed a “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order which not only aims to reform the H-1B Visa Program but halt it completely. From the rhetoric and policies of President Trump and his supporters, the US has become a very hostile and xenophobic country to immigrants and its future talents. Politicians and pundits seek to pit Americans workers against foreign talents as scapegoats. I argue that the H-1B visa program is what makes America great. For the US to meet its need and compete with the global marketplace, H-1B Visa is what will the US come on top. The H-1B Visa program was created to meet the needs of America’s evolving economy, and today the need is even …show more content…

At his rallies, President Trump described the visa program as an initiative that the companies have benefited under the cost of the American workers.

President Trump signed his lasted executive order,

There are other important leaders at the top echelons of the US government that are calling for the complete end of the H-1B program. The US Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed, the H-1B program is a “tremendous threat” to Americans. Opponents of the H-1B visa has used rhetoric and false propaganda to build animosity to between American workers and foreign workers. Pundits and politicians claim that there is no need for the visa program and the program has hurt Americans more than it has helped. They have accused the program of driving down the wages of Americans by outsourcing cheap foreign workers.

There is a reason why the H-1B visa is also known as the “genius visa.” The H-1B attracts the smartest minds to our companies and public institutions. The applicants, especially the advanced degree holders in the STEM fields, are the crème de la crème of the foreign talent

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