Melania's Diary By Maureen Dowd

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Maureen Dowd is an emotional writer because she expresses herself in her writing, for example, “A #FreeMelania meme thrives and Paul Rudnick is conjuring “Melania’s Diary” in The New Yorker, in which she went to the Women’s March incognito and chanted, “Keep your tiny hands off my reproductive rights!” The author projects her emotions towards this topic effectively because one sees her emotions toward Donald Trump due to her creative thinking of Melania’s view of Trump. She motivates her audience because she rallies them around a topic, for instance, she rallies her audience around her topic that Melania breaks the norm of a typical First Lady. She gets some of her evidence from interviews, “Bannon calls himself that while he stirs the pot,

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