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2 - Trump’s Simplicity

from Part II - Feeling Ignored

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Roderick P. Hart
Roderick P. Hart
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

In politics, words are never far from the action: How to describe the upcoming legislation? How to set the tone for the party’s convention? How to address reporters when descending from Air Force One? “Word eruptions” – words about words about words – are a constant thing as a result and that was even truer when Donald Trump became president: One of his supporters, Roseanne Barr, lost her TV show after making racist allusions about an Obama staffer; Melania Trump wore a coat declaring “I really don’t care. Do U?” which also caused a stir; comedian Michelle Wolf prayed that White House staffer Kellyanne Conway would be hit by a tree and also described Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “an Uncle Tom for white women”; Robert De Niro went on a rant against Trump at the Tony Awards; and Peter Fonda imagined ripping “Barron Trump from his mother” and putting him in a “cage with pedophiles.”1 Cruel words, incessant words, ineluctably political words.

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Trump and Us
What He Says and Why People Listen
 , pp. 25 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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