Donald Trump Persuasive Speeches

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Since the announcement of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy for 2016, he has been featured on countless magazine covers, plastered on Twitter feeds, and headlined on major news stations. Being in the spotlight is something Donald Trump is truly adapted to and has made it clear how comfortable he is in recent public speeches. I will always question Trumps motives regardless of his campaign trail for president. However, New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich, addresses his perception of Trump in “Donald Trump is Not Going Anywhere,” he states, “ I figured that even if Trump did run, his conspiracy-­mongering, reality-­show orientations and garish tabloid sensibilities would make him unacceptable to the polite company of American politics and mainstream media… yet his poll numbers kept growing.”(2015). The claims Lebovich makes on Trump's behalf are accurate and relative in my eyes. I believe Trumps motives are always to be questioned as the presidential campaign goes on. I am equally as baffled as Lebovich is to persistently hear Trumps poll numbers are increasingly growing. As a United States Citizen, I strongly believe it is crucial that…show more content…
In Donald Trump's announcement speech that he would be campaigning for president he was “calling illegal immigrants rapists and criminals…” (Leboivuch 2015). After his announcement speech, outside of the Rockefeller Center, outraged people of color and minority groups joined arms with chants, “ (‘‘Trump’s a racist’’), taunts (‘‘Donald, you want to deport me?’’) and placards (‘‘You’re not hired’’) (Leibovich 2015). Naturally, the people Trump targeted were outraged at the way he explicitly distinguished his feelings regarding people of color and other minority groups. Aside from Trump's ridicule, his poll numbers have been increasing, but the accuracy of his polls is, in my opinion, highly
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