“Make America Great Again”
Donald Trump started of his campaigning with this slogan. The rhetoric to this slogan is quite interesting. Using the three main parts of rhetoric we looked at, logos, pathos and ethos, we see that this slogan uses pathos and ethos. Logos is the logic that is used in speech and y saying “Make America Great Again” it doesn’t imply much logic as to what he is saying. Pathos more so deals with the emotion that the person feels when they hear something. Trumps slogan definitely made people feel unsure of how the government was being run and that it needed to change for the better. By saying again, he implies that the country we live in was at a low point, and many patriotic people would disagree that America was always great. Since he said tis it made those people look at our state of economy and many other things and realize that something needed change. Then after being an emotional state we feel that Trump, because he is the one saying this slogan, is the one that is going to make America great again if he gets elected. Ethos can be found in this slogan as well. Like my last point about pathos it is seen that Donald Trump is set out to pursued us to believe that he is the one that will make our country great. In the clip provided Trump by using the terms dreaming for your future it makes us feel that we need to dream and he will be the voice that will make is easier. Pathos is the biggest component of how Trump is conducting his speech and without much logic he has still gain voters.
Trump wanted to go after the family demographic by saying “for every parent who dreams for their child”, in the video provided, and then later he refers to safety. He feels that the family vote can be very important because it relates to almost everyone and everyone had dreams at one point. By saying this and going after this demographic he wants the emotions to come through for all these families. The use of language is supposed to get you to believe that Trump is out to make change in our country, whereas in reality many people look at trump and don’t see that he can make a difference and won’t benefit our country positively. Trump has too many problems to where a speech about making us great again won’t be able to help how people perceive him. This piece of rhetoric I chose is effective as a speech because it gets people emotionally involved to where they believe that they want to go with the candidate that will “Make America Great Again”
I chose this piece of rhetoric because I find Trump and his speeches interesting and his slogan always raised questions with me. Even though Trump himself isn’t the best candidate for the job he believes he is and it’s interesting to watch from a viewing stand point. When I first heard that this was an actual slogan that a presidential candidate put out I was interested in it and felt that it was just one big propaganda speech that Trump made so he can be bold and be noticed. Trump always interest me and this is just one of those examples that interest me.
Raymond Pietzak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzbaD-Sk8A