Donald Trump Persuasive Essay

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Donald Trump, our president, has obviously won an election. A lot of people claim to hate Trump, so how did he win. How did such a hated man win an election that will affect the United States? Donald Trump had cards to play to win, and it wasn’t bribing people. Donald used the media to his advantage. Did you know that Donald Trump was on a tv show? In this article it states, “In 2003 Trump became the host of the reality TV show The Apprentice, in which hopefuls competed for a chance to work for his organisation. For a decade millions of viewers were fed the idea of Trump as a successful businessman, a boss with the power to say: “You’re fired!,(How Trump won the election: volatility and a common touch). This quote shows one way he uses media. This tv show made him look wealthy and powerful. To back my statement, in says “It gave him 10 years of being in front of the American public being the boss, being CEO, hiring people, famously firing people, being the guy who can fix it, the one who knows everything, being the big authoritarian patriarchal guy.(How Trump won the election: volatility and a common touch) The tv show basically made him look …show more content…

Hillary Clinton was Donald’s opposer and was supposed to win. What happened? According to this article, “- I presume that the campaign, the Hillary campaign, had a great ground game, mechanically. But the message wasn't working, and so they couldn't get a lot of people out to vote.(Hillary Clinton Had The Stronger Ground Game. What Happened?)” This shows that Hillary simply did not have a good message or may have not been received. She had a traditional campaign but her messages weren’t reaching out. Trump’s message got out there and a lot of people agreed. The phrase “make america great again” is tacky and kind of sounds lame, but it is what people want. People want to make this an even more awesome country to live in and hearing someone may be able to do it is