Fallacies sell deodorant, and presidential candidates; no other candidate in the twenty sixteen election is better at using Fallieces than Donald Trump. What was once a name synonymous with money and power is now associate with wild claims about immigrants and China. On June sixteenth Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. In a grand congregate of family members and supporters Donald Trump announced that he will, “Make america great again.” Mr. Trump has performed a metamorphosis from Donald Trump the real estates mongul to Donald Trump the brand. With any brand, fallacies are used to “persuade” the buyer that the brand that the agency is selling is the right brand. Unlike deodorant ads, fallacies in presidential campaigns have
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The Trump campaign is guilty of stating three very serious fallacies: the first is ad hominem.Ad hominem is used as a distraction in political campaigns to allocate time from serious issues to mundane personal quarrels . The second fallacies that the Trump campaign has committed is poisoning the well. To discredit an opponent with before the debate begins, this tactic discredits the opponent before the debate has begun. The final Fallacy the trump campaign has committed is slippery slope, which employs a scare tactic to deceive the voter into thinking that the ramification of not voting for their campaign will lead to far more disastrous consequences. Ad hominem is the use of personal attacks in order to discredit the opponent's argument rather countering the opponent's argument with sound logic. Ad hominem is one of the most used …show more content…
By playing the fears of the people Donald Trump is fooling the voters into thinking that the world is in danger and he is the one to fix it. Playing to dark grim music a picture of the San Bernardino shooters was shown with a man quoting donald Trump saying “President Obama can call it what he wants, but, Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism”, the commercial then suggests that a ban on a Muslim immigrants will be part of a solution to this issues. By suggesting that Muslim immigration is a reason for such horrible acts of violence is irrational and harbours xenophobia within the minds of Americans. The argument that this is a war on “political correctness” is ridiculous. The idea letting in Muslim migrants will lead to an increase in terrorism has no basis. Like most religions muslims vary in beliefs, A study conducted by Pew research finds that the vast majority disagree with ISIS ideology. (Lipka ,2).By committing the slippery slope fallacy the trump campaign is deceiving voters into aligning with
The Trump campaign is guilty of stating three very serious fallacies: the first is ad hominem.Ad hominem is used as a distraction in political campaigns to allocate time from serious issues to mundane personal quarrels . The second fallacies that the Trump campaign has committed is poisoning the well. To discredit an opponent with before the debate begins, this tactic discredits the opponent before the debate has begun. The final Fallacy the trump campaign has committed is slippery slope, which employs a scare tactic to deceive the voter into thinking that the ramification of not voting for their campaign will lead to far more disastrous consequences. Ad hominem is the use of personal attacks in order to discredit the opponent's argument rather countering the opponent's argument with sound logic. Ad hominem is one of the most used …show more content…
By playing the fears of the people Donald Trump is fooling the voters into thinking that the world is in danger and he is the one to fix it. Playing to dark grim music a picture of the San Bernardino shooters was shown with a man quoting donald Trump saying “President Obama can call it what he wants, but, Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism”, the commercial then suggests that a ban on a Muslim immigrants will be part of a solution to this issues. By suggesting that Muslim immigration is a reason for such horrible acts of violence is irrational and harbours xenophobia within the minds of Americans. The argument that this is a war on “political correctness” is ridiculous. The idea letting in Muslim migrants will lead to an increase in terrorism has no basis. Like most religions muslims vary in beliefs, A study conducted by Pew research finds that the vast majority disagree with ISIS ideology. (Lipka ,2).By committing the slippery slope fallacy the trump campaign is deceiving voters into aligning with