Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald Trump's Political Campaign

As the election gets closer, the message from one of the candidates about certain minority groups have progressively gotten worse over time. This particular candidate is billionaire businessman Donald Trump. Last year when Trump made comments about Mexican authorities sending rapists and murderers across the U.S. and Mexican border illegally, and doing harm to our citizens. The tone and rhetoric in which Mr. Trump used in this context sent a chill throughout the country, and put unfair focus on the Hispanic community. Throughout his campaign, Mr. Trump has been making disparaging remarks regarding other ethnic groups besides the Latino community, and despite distancing himself from the rest of the GOP (Grand Old Party) contenders, he

How can a person with that much money relate to an ordinary person? The United States has made great strides towards bringing awareness towards diversity, but with how this political campaign has been shaping up, it has caused a divide not only between political parties, but in race relations as well. Trump’s average supporter does not have anything in common with him except for what the words that come from his mouth. Mr. Trump is popular with people who are against immigration, have fallen behind on these hard economic times, and do not hold a college degree (Guo, 2015). In the same article, the author discussed how Republicans without a college degree were more likely to think that immigrants weaken the economy more than college educated Republicans do (Guo, 2015). The United States has gone through some changes lately with the war on terror. Immigration has become a hot topic issue, and Trump seems to be saying stuff that resonates with his supporters. He is saying things people are afraid to say, but what he is saying is mostly hate and degrading to some groups of people. What does that say about those who are buying into this? Is he correct and those who object to what he is saying wrong? The remarks he is making is just adding to the paranoia is rampant in our country at this moment and causing people to react in ways that are out of the norm. How do we define

The FBI kept data on immigrants and crime during this time period and violent crime (robbery, rape, murder) dropped 48 percent, while property crime (auto, larceny, burglary) dropped had a decrease of 41 percent (Estevez, 2015). The report also showed that people born in the states were more likely to be repeat offenders than illegal immigrants as well (Estevez, 2015). With data like this available, this goes to show that what Trump is saying has no merit. Like what Albert Hunt of The New York Times said; “Trump gets a lot wrong in his comments about immigration and Mexico” (Hunt, 2015). This seems to be a trend with Trump. Just recently, he made comments about banning all Muslims from entering the United States after a recent mass shooting in California that was committed by Islamic radicals. This would almost be like banning a whole group of people based on nationality like the United States did with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Takaki, 1993). Something like this has no merit and is racist at best. Trump stated in a CNN interview (Scott, 2015) that he has Muslim friends who are “happy that he is discussing Islamic fundamentalism but that they do not support his decision to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S.” You would think that if had had Muslim “friends,” he would think before he spoke, but this obviously is not the case with Trump. Trump also