Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald Trump's Speech

President Donald Trump spoke at an event named “the Celebrate Freedom Rally” at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC last year on July 1, 2017. In president Donald J Trump's speech at the celebrate freedom rally he keeps crowd engaged and emotional. He performs this this by using marqueed hand gestures and seeming as if he was not afraid to talk because of his eye movements. Trump also engages the crowd through allusions with god & very well timed anecdotes about the past & uses his credibility through sarcasm . Because of these actions, by the end of the speech Trump has most of the crowd feeling the emotions that he intended from the beginning. In the beginning of the speech Donald Trump uses strong sarcastic tone in the statement of “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House but I'm president and they're not.” One of the main parts of Donald Trump's campaign was about the “fake media” and how the news and social media platforms twist events to make the citizens believe a certain way. This was important then because during the presidential election of 2016 the media made it clear that they believed there was no way Trump would win …show more content…
By using these hand gestures President Trump looks as if he's emotional and he can get points across without even saying it. Depending on what gesture he uses it can tell the crowd what he's about to say is important, i’m not hiding anything, or us together. Because these hand gestures are so powerful it keeps the crowd engaged and makes them feel as if they are still in the academic conversation even though they're listening to a speech. This will always be important then and now because although Donald Trump isn't the first to come to mind when we think about great speech givers, he has always had the ability to get a crowd on his side and one of those reasons is because of the hand