When President Donald Trump nominated as the candidate for Republican Party, many people underestimated him and even Republican Party express its concern of Donald Trump in public that It will be difficult to fight against Hillary Clinton. However, those traditional media and people’s forecast of Donald Trump turned out to be completely wrong. On November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump won the U.S presidential election and officially became the 45th President of the United States of America. After Donald Trump became the President, many traditional media and politician analyzed about his communication strategies, speeches, and method of using social media. Unlike other former presidential candidate and his opponent, Trump employs a new method of political …show more content…
While Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, used social media as to announce her future events, show photo image of herself, Donald Trump was the first candidate in the history of the presidential election that radically airs his views throughout Twitter, not traditional media. Including former president Barack Obama, he was also active on Twitter and shared his campaign idea with Twitter users, but Donald Trump left behind an unparalleled record in the presidential election. “He has sent more than 28,00 tweets – roughly 12 tweets per day since 2009 “(Mir). As time goes by, many political communication experts predicted that use of social media will take over the political communication. However, they did not expect that it’d be so quick because Trump uses the Twitter as the main channel of communication not just sending campaign and policies information but also attack Hillary Clinton with negative comments. Trump’s political communication is completely different from a traditional usage of social media that makes many communication experts reconsider the impact of Twitter and method of using