Abstract
The act to boost nation building is not separated from the role of a political actor who represents a country. Donald Trump’s decision to finally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is very contrary to US foreign policy over the past 7 decades, which makes it controversial. This raises questions about the dominance of power over a figure of the President of United States in representing his role as a political actor. This research aims to analyze the dominance of power over a figure of Donald Trump as The President of United States through his official presidential speech on recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Using a discourse analysis by Teun A. Van Dijk, this research is done by analyzing structures of language based on the full transcript of the video, as The basic assumption of the study of critical discourse is that the language used for various functions has various consequences, whether it is governing, influencing, deciphering, filing, manipulating moving groups or persuading. It can also be implied that certain statement of a powerful political leader can be used to support nation building, in this case is the United States as a superpower.
 
 
 Keywords: domination, power, Trump, nation building, United States, discourse, Van Dijk
Highlights
Critical discourse analysis is a perspective, a position or attitude taken in a discourse study discipline that involves various disciplines: discourse analysis, psychology, history, social sciences, or linguistics
Using videos and transcripts of official speeches quoted from The New York Times news page, this study aims to understand the representation of the power of Trump's figure through a video of his official speech about Donald Trump's statement that acknowledges Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
The thing analyzed is the theme presented as a general description of the news article, namely Donald Trump's official statement as President of the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
Summary
Critical discourse analysis is a perspective, a position or attitude taken in a discourse study discipline that involves various disciplines: discourse analysis, psychology, history, social sciences, or linguistics. Various scientific disciplines are needed to help analyze, make descriptions and provide a theoretical framework that plays a role in criticizing justice or discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, class, religion, or language. The basic assumption of the study of critical discourse is that the language used for various functions has various consequences, whether it is governing, influencing, deciphering, filing, manipulating moving groups or persuading (Haryatmoko, 2016: 77). Language is used for a variety of functions and has various consequences. One of the most common is the news text that reports an event. On December 6, 2018, The New York Times published an article entitled Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's Capital and Orders U.S Embassy to Move on its official page followed by a video and complete transcript of the official speech
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