Ethos In Trump's Speech

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Ethos
Trump is a persuader who exemplifies ethos. He presents himself as trustworthy, honorable, community minded, and credible. He seems to very confident in his position, sincere, and understanding of the audience’s concerns. He uses patriotic concepts including, protect, defend, freedom, justice against evil words such as Radical Islamic and Terrorism. These powerful words enthuse motivation for action and can pull the audience in. Trump’s speech covers a vast amount of knowledge and background of our country, which in the book it says can be persuasive to the audience, (245). These are a few example sentences Trump uses in his foreign policy speech.
• “We should work together with any nation in the region that is threatened by the rise

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