After intriguing the audience and establishing his credibility, Fallows starts to mainly criticize Trump’s twitter post with his bullet pointed ideas, and appeal to logos. One characteristic of a truly smart person observed by Fallows is that “virtually none [of those smart people] say” they’re smart, which directly contradicts to Trump’s public tweet where he claimed that he “would qualify as not smart, but genius.” With the image of the twitter post on the side of the text and the criteria bullet-pointed, readers can clearly see this contradiction, and recognize that Trump doesn’t possess the qualifying characteristics or behaviors to be considered as a “genius.” Since Fallows’ credibility was previously established, the audience will trust …show more content…
The effect states that “the more limited someone is in reality, the more talented the person imagines himself to be.” Fallows had previously revealed the vainness embedded in Trump’s public twitter post, and so the Dunning-Kruger effect is utilized to logically prove that Trump has limited intelligence. By associating scientific knowledge in the argument, Fallows appeals to logos, providing firm evidence to the audience that clearly explains why Trump isn’t smart. Fallows also describes Trump’s twitter post as a “flamboyant illustration of a dangerous misperception.” With the reference to the effect, the author additionally displays that Trump is self-deluding himself because his tweet is “flamboyant” and is a “misperception” that contains “self-inflated assessments.” Fallows is being serious here, by coldly criticizing how Trump labels himself as a “genius” when he is actually lacking in intellectual abilities according to the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” Trump’s action is problematic to the extent the Fallows thinks it is “dangerous.” This once again highlights the idea to the audience that Trump isn’t smart - he’s worse than