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The Impact of Trump’s Speech Today

1. Analysis of Trump’s Key Messages

Trump gave a speech on Tuesday 12th June where he shared about meeting with Kim Jong-Un, and it was a prime time for the news and predawn viewers in the US. Naturally, much examination has and will continue to center around Trump’s delivery and usage of words in conveying about the meeting and its value. This article breaks down a portion of the key messages and words utilized by Trump. The meeting is unmistakably an enormous achievement for each pioneer. The spotlight is on Trump in view of the dangers he has effectively taken in managing Kim Jong Un and stepping out onto the world stage. He highlighted the understanding and closeness that he part Kim for their liking for expert ball in the United States and recommended the conceivable eventual fate of joint North Korea-US groups. From a positive view this is an appealing thought that could enhance relations between the two nations. Conversely, from a more negative perspective, this could be seen as a shrewd path for Kim to attempt and get more North Korean players to escape and go about as follows up on a potential reunification of the two Korea’s. A direct result of the primary ever North Korea joined endeavor with the US, Trump said he would stall out for the current week South Korea and postponed joint war amusements. North Korea has dependably considered these activities a preliminary attack and frequently reacts with serious dangers. By putting off the war diversions there is less danger of a military encounter from misconstrued aim. This progression is to pour that no nation has ever observed, and troublesome tough proposition. This can be viewed as Trump’s energy about his own particular administration and self image. He trusts that others past presidents have neglected to accomplish what he is achieving and in particular he has been taken note. At the point when a journalist expressed that a gathering amongst American and North Korean pioneers is precisely what Kim has needed for a long time, Trump answered that it was similar to nothing happened. In spite of the fact that there was no immediate exchange, this would tie into the liked ball similarity and that Trump will give Kim a chance to have a shot at accomplishing a North Korean national group in the United States. From a Trump future point of view, he has adequately made a stride towards an accomplishment bigger than any past US President.

2. Examination of the Rhetorical Techniques Used

The techniques employed by Trump during his speech today are demonstrative of his intent to channel popular anger and dissatisfaction with government into support for his administration. Daniel Boorstin, former director of the US Library of Congress, has classified six distinct rhetorical techniques. These are: the pseudo-event, image, stereotype, pseudo context, and self-fulfilling prophecy. A pseudo event is an event that is intended only to be reported – it never actually happened. An image is an idealized simplified representation of a person. A stereotype is a person who does not change – it freezes the personality. A pseudo context is a contrived setting in which a staged event appears ‘real’. The self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that ensures the predicted event will happen. Trump’s first act was to tell an audience that it had just witnessed a ‘truly great event’. This is a clear example of creating a pseudo event, for an event to be seen as great it must be reported, therefore he is asserting that this speech would have a positive impact. This intention is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. Trump has also created an alternative reality to the one described by his predecessors and has urged the acceptance of this when he asked for “honest patriotism”. This is a request for people to believe that loving their country was a concept which was lost but now has been recovered because of his presidency. This is a clear example of the creation of a pseudo context.

3. Evaluation of the Speech’s Effectiveness

The bulk of President Trump’s speech focused on his agenda for the renewal of the United States. This plan included suggestions for increased industrial growth with policy changes such as more stringent trade agreements and a tax policy which would, in his opinion, promote industrial growth within the country. Using Aristotle’s persuasive appeals we can analyze the methods used in this aspect of the speech. The appeal to logos is particularly strong as in his promises of job revival he speaks of unemployment statistics in specific numbers, and his actual plans are solid and based in logic, whether or not they are the best plans for the nation. His plan for tax revision also uses the logic appeal, yet is arguable in its effectiveness for the logic appeal relies on the assumption that corporate tax breaks will indeed bring companies back to the U.S rather than outsourcing their production for products which will continue to be sold in the U.S. Anything said on the matter will be purely speculative until policy changes are put into place. The appeals to pathos and ethos are employed via the same method, which is trying to convince “American” companies to bring industrial jobs back to the U.S. This portrays Trump himself as a man of common interest with the population and makes the companies opposing his plans seem unloyal to their own nation while giving an image of Trump as a righteously patriotic statesman. Despite which of the two images it gives for Trump, the effectiveness of this method is arguable for it will depend on how much the collective American “self-image” has changed since the time involving heavy industrial work, and the relative “loyalty” of companies to their nation compared to their desire for higher profit margins.

4. Discussion on the Public Reaction and Media Coverage

Generally, people judge debates based on their partisan leanings, and a majority of opinion polls following the debate found that people viewed the debate as a tie, mostly reflecting their voting intentions (Borick, 2020). Unlike simple public opinion reactions, understanding media coverage of events is a complex process that requires assessing the tone of news coverage, the amount of coverage, and the issues highlighted in the news (Wolfsfeld, 2011). Considering that the debates are a topic in themselves and a strong source of news for both the public and politicos, it is the issue of issue salience frame that is most important at determining public perception of a debate as a news event (Weaver and Wilhoit, 1996). Issue salience frame shows the relative importance of an issue compared to other issues in the minds of the public and news audience and is reflected by event data such as the amount of news coverage and mentions of related issues.

Public opinion and media analysis after a controversial presidential debate plays a crucial role in understanding the public reception of the event. Media analyses of public reaction help to determine what actually happened during the event (Weaver, 1996). Follow-up stories in the days after the event can reveal the lasting impact of the debate on the broader political environment. By providing a summary of the public reaction and media analysis of the debate, it can offer insight into the debate’s impact on public opinion and the effect it will have on the upcoming election.

5. Reflection on the Future Implications

In the future, with an already stronger economy and a victory over unemployment, Donald Trump may have just set the stage to hand what he called an “already strong” Republican Congress, the very thing they need to raise national debt in the years following. This shift to increased debt for the sake of assured security echoes the very decisions that led America from a nation in the throes of the Great Depression to the world superpower it came out as after World War Two.

The economic message, coupled with combating terrorism, is one that the American public trusts will make them safer. If Trump is to follow through and build a naval fleet to the likes we haven’t seen in decades and increase the size of our army troops, then he needs to prepare the public for the surge in defense spending. This is traditionally Keynesian economics when a nation has been concerned with underemployment and is the medicine to cure high unemployment. Trump has never been an advocate for this kind of economic theory, and it would be a hard sell today.

Had the Paris attacks never happened, today’s speech would have an entirely different context. It was brief and had messages of a domestic economic platform; the same kind that won him the election. But today, Trump spoke very little about economics and instead shifted to building up the nation’s military which, from his economic message, differs greatly.