Rhetoric Strategy: Negative Connotations of Minorities by Trump’s legislation

The religion and practice of Islam has always been a controversial topic in the United States of America. There have been a number of tragedies involving Muslim extremists, but if President Donald Trump wants to ban Muslims from America, what about the other races who have committed massacres, shootings, and down right acts of terror? Race and religion are not always key aspects of an act of terror. However, Trump and many politicians use the act of persuasion and extortion to arouse feelings of betrayal by Muslims in many Americans. With the tone, message, and diction of a speech, propaganda and implantation of ideas are very possible.

There is crime and violence everywhere in the world. President Donald Trump and many other politicians have assigned such a demeaning and abrogating connotations towards any Muslims. In the eyes of many, Muslims are viewed as criminals. I think this has a lot to do with rhetoric strategy and the art of persuasion. Donald Trump always contains a very confident and somewhat arrogant tone in his speeches. When talking about Muslims, he persuades and coaxes his audience to believe Muslims are horrible. One quote he has said about the incident of 9/11 is  “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations,” he told the crowd. “They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down.” However, this was never proven. He also bashes other minority groups like the Mexicans. He stated, ‘They’re bringing drugs,’ crime and are ‘rapists’. This was also not backed up by any evidence in his speech. His campaign and party consisted of a numerous amount of ‘alternative facts’, and was mocked and ridiculed by many social media and news outlets. The republican party’s use of rhetoric is definitely one of the top reasons why they had won the election due to the number of speeches that were recited. Trump persuaded in his speeches and won the votes of many.