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President Trump's Ethos Pathos Logos

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With the passed election of twenty-sixteen, campaign speeches are a powerful way to sway an audience to vote one way or another. Candidates purpose for speeches are strictly used to capture the emotional, ethical, and logical appeal of the audience to show the problems America faces today. Campaign speeches are also used to show why their opponent cannot fulfill the position as president. It is used more or less to strengthen their own chances of winning and weaken their opponents, using the appeal of ethos. Current President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention Speech ,uses the appeal of pathos excessively while lacking the logos appeal using more of an emotional aspect to reel in his audience. President Trump’s speech is used for …show more content…

In this speech, Trump didn’t mention himself until the end of the speech; he was not the center of attention. President Trump stated he is our voice as American people and he is kindhearted . This speech was designed to belittle candidate Clinton , comparing Clinton legacy to death, destruction and weakness. While bringing down the other candidate, the ethos aspect can be brought in as it can be made clear to the audience that Trump would be a better fit as president. This makes President Trump ethos appeal successful, by bashing candidate Clinton it makes voters question her credibility, while making Trump's seem as a better fit for president considering he is the only other …show more content…

Throughout the speech the emotional appeal of pathos is redundant. The speech was given in front of American flags and President Trump presents himself as being powerful bringing more emotion into the speech. This makes the pathos appeal successful, By President Trump using past and current American tragedies and problems, he captures the pathos aspect by bringing death, and terror into the speech. In this case, the audience will accept the emotional appeal for the fact that the casualties and terror in American society will continue if he wasn’t elected are included. Terror in the America tends to be a soft spot for many because it means lack of safety, for those in our country. The speech brings out emotion and at the same time bashes Clinton in the speech, combining both pathos and ethos successfully. Trump states in the speech “ Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy. The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”( Trump). He slips in the fact that Americans will continue to face the same problems they had with other Democrats with Hillary], he continues to feed into that emotional appeal. Attempting to question the physical needs Hillary can appeal to them such as questioning the safety and security Clinton can

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