Earth To Donald Trump Words Matter Analysis

“Would you do business with someone who routinely exaggerated his or her abilities?” states Diane Diamond to open her persuasive article “Earth to Donald Trump: Words Matter.” This question brings an immediate comparison to scamming or conning. In this article Diamond evaluates Donald Trump and his unconventional method of running for president. As readers we see the authors take on this specific point in the third paragraph as she mocks Trump by calling his campaign the “I’m-bigger-and-smarter-and-stronger-and-richer-than-everyone-else” campaign. Diamond states plenty of facts and calls out Trump for many lies. Even in a normal, everyday life lying to get what one wants will never be ok. Diamond hit everything right on the head, and it could not have been worded any better. From reading this article one of the main things that stuck out to me were that trump will lie for anything that will benefit him. Diamond states, “He blithely tweeted out a bogus crime statistic recently claiming blacks had killed 81 percent of with murder victims,” and when the FBI said he was “dead wrong” he did not even apologize. Which shows that he has a lot of growing up to do. Diamond takes multiple shots at Trump calling him a “fact-dodger” and calling his campaign method …show more content…
When it comes to his trade policy idea he says “I will beat China. I always beat China,” which again shows a lack of initiative to get anything done financially, and the United States definitely cannot afford that. Diamond says it better, “At first Trump seemed like the antidote to all those bland-speaking politicians. But now The Donald’s act is as tiresome as a used car salesman who won’t let you test drive the car but assures you everything will be just