Abstract

At first it was the coronavirus briefings held at the White House and lead by the U.S. president Donald Trump. In these briefings and with the help of certain intrinsic and known-to-the public characteristics of the president’s personality such as the love of power, authority and control, appreciation of dictatorship, arrogance, and self-aggrandizing, the media managed to portray the president as a person with modest or even poor communication skills, a bigot, a self-congratulatory, a liar, a self-opinionated, and a self-righteous. Second, it was George Floyd’s murder as a result of the brutality of four white police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota which overtook the nationwide pandemic, the coronavirus. Floyd’s grievous death sparked waves of protests in major cities nationwide, and instead of standing up for his citizen’s rights, Trump turned a blind eye to this heinous crime. Furthermore, Trump failed verbally and nonverbally to address the grieving nation and to show empathy and solidarity with the victim and his family. His words did not match the grave and horrific situation, and his voice tone and his facial expressions failed to pacify the irate public. The media outlets were there to expose Trump’s deadly mishaps and glitches not just to the American public but to the whole world. With the help of the media, American people were able to detect the fallacy of his arguments and claims. These outlets were happy to dedicate hundreds of hours of live coverage in its quest to pave the way for Trump’s demise and fall.

Highlights

  • The first blow Trump’s administration received was the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic

  • At first it was the coronavirus briefings held at the White House and lead by the U.S president Donald Trump

  • Coronavirus narrative was not really able to move the masses against president Trump, but it prepared the street for some sort of resistance

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Summary

Introduction

The first blow Trump’s administration received was the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. The public sough freedom and a way out of the tedious quarantine, and scientists were behind financial gain. This pandemic widened the gap between the leadership and the public while differences of interest continued to accumulate. Coronavirus narrative was not really able to move the masses against president Trump, but it prepared the street for some sort of resistance. The killing of George Floyd took place at a right timing when the country was on the verge of explosion as a result of nationwide disapproval and disappointment with the Trump’s presidency performance to mitigate and abolished the coronavirus. Floyd’s murder narratives were able to stimulate the public to take to the streets in massive protests against the leadership and its brutal apparatus, the police force. A person ready to kill his own people as he threatened to deploy the military in major cities nationwide

Propaganda
Intertextuality
Positioning Theory
Rhetorical Functions of Going Public
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