A Rhetorical Analysis Of Trump's Political Campaign

“We’ve had enough Bushes,” his mother, Barbara Bush, observed prophetically before her son announced his candidacy last summer.

With his position established in the reader’s minds, he proceeds to highlight the logic of his opinions and actions using logos.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your many years of service. I truly appreciate the stands you have taken to uphold the values that have made this country and state such a wonderful place to raise a family.

Even though Evan Osnos has been a credible writer for The New Yorker for many years I as many others, have never heard of him. For this assignment I wanted to use the articles of a talented writer that is not as recognized as they should be and when I had the topic I wanted in mind I looked up articles about it and stumbled upon his most famous piece of writing “President Trump’s First Term.” I dived in deeper in his column and decided that I wanted to use his articles because we have the same opinions and I like his factual kind of writing. There weren’t as many difficulties writing the rhetorical analysis but I don’t believe I did as well on the explaining of strategies I identified as I would have wanted to. A success I experienced was getting

Logos is a logical appeal that benefits the author in order to

In Hillary Clinton’s campaign ad, she uses ethos and pathos to tear down Trump. She uses the story of man to make a point that Trump has no interest in Muslims.

The presidential race for the 2016 election are in full effect. The candidates are campaigning hard and debating on various issues all for one thing the chance to become the next president of the United States. The reason people vote is to make a change. In order to win, they must convince voters that they are the best for the job, a part of a politician's job is to address issues. How do the candidates successfully do this? By the use of rhetoric, whether it be through oration, discourse debates, television, or radio political advertisements. A rhetorical situation has three components exigence, audience, constraints. According to Bitzer in order to have a rhetorical situation you must be addressing an issue, or else there is no 'situation'.

With the impending election looming closer and closer, the approach of the presidential throne seems to elicit a plethora of opinions on who is the most viable candidate. However, the candidate that has caused controversy at every angle possible is none other than Donald Trump. Famous for his extreme affluence and most notably his TV drama, The Apprentice, President-elect Donald Trump has integrated his unctuous persona into his campaign. The San Diego Union Tribune’s article on Donald Trump, “…Great Power and Greater Irresponsibility”, introduces us with the possibility that Donald Trump is not the “Make America Great American” man he claims to be, and in fact he is the exact opposite. While for some Americans, his aversion to political correctness is admirable and induces a strong support; many are adverse to his social conduct and view his idiosyncrasies polar to the fabric of the Constitution. The article brings forth a target audience of both non-supporters and supporters alike in grave attempt to eradicate this supposed allure of Trump.

Bernie Sanders, a Democratic candidate in the Presidential election, announced his campaign in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont. It was a very unusual setting: though it was a rally, it was seen more as a festival, with free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and performances by the local Vermont-based band, Mango Jam. In his 35-minute speech given at the rally, Sander’s focused on campaigning without the help of billionaires and Super PACs, going against what most of his opponents were doing. He launched his campaign with the hope of creating a “political revolution to transform [this] country economically, politically, socially and environmentally” (Sanders). In explaining his ideals on how he would bring about this political revolution, Bernie Sanders

Every word he says, action he takes, or gesture he makes is over analyzed and twisted before being broadcasted to the world by news media outlets who are supposed to provide us with an unbiased serving of news. That is the exigence being addressed by the political cartoon. The purpose of the cartoon is to bring attention to the fact that it seems pretty clear that many media outlets are in fact out to get Trump. They have been since he first announced his running for presidency and offended them by accusing them of broadcasting fake news. Trump offended the media, and they intend to chase him to the grave now, figuratively speaking of course.

Donald Trump, a once controversial political candidate, gave his 2017 Inaugural address on January 20th, 2017 when he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Through appeals such as syntax and diction, religion and patriotism, and logic, Donald Trump was able to generate a unifying speech toward his audience. Amidst the growing violence and repercussions of the 2016 election, Donald Trump, in his 2017 Inaugural address, sends the message that he will put America and its citizens first to unite the country and change America for the better.

At the Republican National convention in July of 2016, Donald Trump secured the Republican Nomination for President of the United States. After he was further into the national spotlight as one of two major remaining candidates for president, he had an opportunity to use his increasing number of supporters to further appeal to undecided voters as a viable option, and also had a larger stage to make U.S. voters aware of his opinions and policies. Donald Trump’s Nomination speech uses his larger platform effectively to appeal to fear and patriotism in order to rally his immediate audience, while trying to present himself as a more prepared candidate with his appeals to empathy and logic.

Inauguration day marks a new beginning. Every four years, Americans officially welcome a new president. Each president has to address the plans, goals and ideas for the future. Therefore, the inaugural speech is meant to be an emotional and hopeful ceremony for all Americans. The inaugural speech sets the tone for the president’s first weeks in the white house. Ideally this speech will encourage those who voted to believe and trust that the right leader is in the office. On January 20, 2017 Donald Trump gave his inaugural speech and through the use of hyperboles, repetitions, and metaphors he aimed to unify the nation and give hope for the future.

Donald Trump’s speech addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017 was not effective. Despite the speech having a universal message that is hard to disagree with, you can tell exactly which parts of the speech were written by a speech writer, and which parts of the speech were written by Trump himself. This wouldn’t be an issue if Donald Trump’s inflections weren’t full of fallacies and unnecessary statistics. For example, in the third paragraph, President Trump tries to establish his Ethos by listing improvements in the United States since he took office. But many of these cherry-picked improvements have absolutely nothing to do with him being elected. They also have nothing to do with the general theme of the speech. This speech did have examples of effective rhetorical strategies. However, the bad far outweighs the good in this speech and takes away from the good message it originally had.

The ad paints Mr. Trump as unpresidential and unfit for office, in the eyes of both children, and their voting parents. The Clinton campaign is continuing to focus its negative advertising efforts on the provocative remarks made by Donald J. Trump, this time in a commercial that invites adults to imagine what a child might be learning from his campaign. Where they see his acidic comments being played, the screen is filled with close-ups of children gazing at television sets repeatedly throughout the ad, seemingly soaking up every rude, racist, and misogynistic remark.