Donald Trump: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hillary Clinton

As America approaches the end of the primaries, candidates shift their attention to outlining their specific term goals if they were to be elected the U.S. 45th President. Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, presented his vision for American foreign policy on April 27, 2016, hosted by the Center for the National Interest. Trump plays to national pride, submitting that America should be put before all else, he also uses past victories to suggest that America once was great, but now is faltering, due to Democrats such as Obama and his constituents; namely Hillary Clinton. Trump first breaches listeners by playing to their pride: reassuring Americans that they should come before anyone else. Once formalities are over, Donald Trump jumps strait in to his prime directive, he shares with listeners that the “American people and [their] security” should be put “above all else”. In fact, Trump says it will be the “foundation” and “theme” of his administration. After the pep talk, Trump feeds examples to listeners that promote the idea that America’s “rivals no longer respect us”, such as Obama’s “unprecedented” effort to get the Olympics America, which resulted in failure. Such an example of a “lack of respect” shown by other …show more content…
• In my thesis I had mentioned Trump bashing Obama’s actions, but in my paragraph I had focused on diction, such as “allow”, “watches helplessly”, etc. used to describe such actions. Now my third paragraph focuses broadly on specific events that Trump talks about and how that relates to his opponent Hilary.
• Originally, I had synthesized historical foreign policy victories with national pride/ exceptionalism. Where in fact, these two represent different strategies within the speech. The separation allowed me to bring in details about Trump’s forth