Rhetorical Analysis Of Hillary The Trojan Horse

To help understand this speech and its implications, one must first be aware of the context surrounding it. It was presented before the presidential election to help thrust Trump’s chances to become president forth. Also, the American people generally do not have the highest education levels among high income countries, and these people are those who Trump is mainly targeting, among others, because they represent the majority of the population; 40 percent of Americans do not even start college, and only a third of Americans earn a Bachelor’s degree. Trump is aware that there are high levels of crime associated with illegal immigrants; there were 25,000 homicides by illegal immigrants and other non-citizens. Finally, his main opponent, Hillary Clinton, supports what he believes to be a grave issue in American society, illegal immigration. His audience, besides having relatively low education levels, is an Arizona crowd. Arizona feels the effects of illegal immigration in much greater intensity because of its massive shared border, which is 626 km long, with mexico, the primary country of border law perpetrators. Overall, Trump is attacking these immigrants because they can be used as a scapegoat for many American problems and can serve as a common enemy to unify the American people with Donald Trump. To really appeal to the American crowd as an approachable and relatable human being, and as an atypical politician, he only discusses simple ideas, and in very simple diction. Academics have found that the man speaks at a 4th grade level when addressing crowds. This is effective in being comprehensible to the majority of the American people. As explained before, education levels are rather low in the US, and using simplistic language is helpful as it enables Trump to allure a large supporter base. This technique of expressing simple ideas is evident in these quotes. To captivate this aforementioned large supporter base, Trump attacks one of the more identifiable and controversial issues facing the USA; illegal immigration. This is helpful to Trump because it is a problem with a common enemy to attack and a simple solution which no other politician is willing to approach due to its controversy. Then, Donald Trump’s simple language is evidenced by his chopped sentence structure, and constant repetition of short sentences. These statements are those which can make headlines, again propelling him into the spotlight, gaining him more supporters. He assumes that people have not been satisfied with the previous political establishments and therefore presents himself as a completely different candidate; not only is he a business-man turned politician, painting him in a different light compared to other politicians, but he represents an opportunity to change the ostensible repetitive cycle of mishandling of issues; issues which he can fix himself. This is displayed in his language as he groups the “politicians” together, despite that he himself is technically …show more content…
The Trojan horse story is a famous parable in which multiple warriors seemingly present a gift to their enemies, but in fact use this as a method to infiltrate the enemy territory and then murder the whole town’s population, with the final result being a terrible defeat to the enemy side. Therefore, Donald Trump using this allusion has three possible connotations; the intentions of the illegal immigrants may seem to be good-hearted, but that the Americans shouldn’t be fooled by these conniving people; the result of the infiltration is an abhorrent bloodbath, which in the USA’s situation means a surrender of the workforce to unemployment; and finally, that if nothing is done, the end result will be an embarrassing defeat in which the Americans will be sorry they ever trusted the good intentions of the immigrants. All 3 of these connotations link to the previous point of Trump’s emphasis on urgency because he is saying calling upon an American support for Trump’s policies against these Illegal …show more content…
The use of imagery is effective in displaying the tangibility of this plan. There is even a contrast set up here as he creates a distinction between the evolution he has set out with his allusion and the future where his solution of building a wall takes place, convincing the American people to vote for him to avoid the bloodbath he hints at. Once again, he also uses the first plural pronoun to create a sense of unity as the American people will move forward together under his