Donald Trump Declaration Of Independence Analysis

There are parts in Donald Trump’s speech that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence show and come out. In the beginning of the speech it shows when he says, “We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people” (Trump, pg 1). Mainly at the end when he says about restoring the promise back to our people. The Declaration was originally written as a promise to the American people. Trump is saying how the promise that we the people were given is broken and how he wants to fix it. The Declaration was supposed to bring the thirteen states together under one set of laws and at the beginning of the quote Trump says how we are all joined as one nation. One of the big points in Trump’s speech was to bring the power and government back to the people. In the Declaration it states, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and

The one it would have to be the most similar to would have to be King’s March. That would be because the tones and the language of both speeches are not negative but both speaker have acknowledged that as country we have made a promise to the people but have not kept that promise. King’s speech was about how we made a promise to all black people how they would be free but that promise had not been fulfilled. King starts his speech off by saying, “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as