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Deondra Taylor

Dr. McCully

Theory and Practice of Writing

26 October 2017

Donald Trump: The Inevitable American President?

Like many American’s that night of November 8th, 2016, I was among the many who

were shocked and horrified at the election of President Trump. Many people were angry,

confused shocked and in utter denial that someone who is immature, rude, and narcissistic could

ever become president of the country. However, it is possible that a president such as Trump

predicted even before his election did the history of America predict a president like Trump

coming into office? Did the history of America’s imperialism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, and

racism result in Trump's election? How about the Obama administration, the Democratic

Candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as his use of social media, and his background in business?

Because of America’s history, and the view that America is losing their place in the world.

Because of the feeling that Americans are being put on the backburner because of globalization,

the feeling of loss of power and control of the majority. In the eyes of Trump’s supporters, he

represents the resurgence of American exceptionalism, regaining their place in the world and

within the country, as well as the restoration of American values.

From the beginning, America has always been a place of nonconformity, and

individualism. When the Puritans arrived in America, they were finally able to practice and

preach their own ideas, as they were viewed as outsiders in their home country, however, in

America they were the ones who sowed the seeds and shaped American nationalism and culture.
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These people believed that they were “God’s chosen people.”, many of the people who moved

here believed that this was the land that God has chosen for them and that they needed to educate

and convert, and integrate English culture to the American Indians; and if they are unwilling to

do this to forcibly removing them from the land. This sense of nationalism only increased over

time, resulting in westward expansion under the principle of manifest destiny, to expand

American territory as well as American culture. Which started with the Dred Scott case, this case

prevented Congress to decide if slavery will be abolished in every state expanding further west

and expanding the country into Mexico’s territory. This need to expand America’s culture and

willingness to blame and attack other countries and people(s) to express the idea that American

culture can solve the world's problems, is expressed to this day.

Then came the 2016 presidential elections, where Trump was able to bring up this old

narrative of American nationalism and exceptionalism as an American first mentality. Trump

made it clear during his presidential run that he is an “America first” president, and there is no

greater example of that than his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” this implies that

in some way and at some point, America has lost what made it exceptional, that somehow

American people and culture are under attack and that he is the only person who can restore

America to its former glory. Trump made it clear that American minorities, as well as people

who practice Islam, are enemies to American safety and threaten their culture. He said things

like, “When Mexico is sending its people, they’re not sending their best…They’re bringing

drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume are good people.” (Heilpern).

Trump also makes the statement that “This all happened because, frankly, there’s no

assimilation. They are not assimilating…They want to go by sharia law. They want sharia law.

They don’t want the laws that we have. They want sharia law” (Johnson and Hauslohner). That
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these people somehow take away American wellness and decency, and that he is the redeemer of

American purity and safety. Trump was able to take advantage of people’s fear and uncertainty

by using American minorities, specifically Muslims, as a scape goat for America’s problems. He

created a common enemy(s) for his voters to fight against.

Trump is a nonconformist. He did not fit the presidential norm, he never played by the

rules, and he does not fit the presidential stereotype of being well spoken, polite, politically

correct, and respectable. Throughout his campaign, he was an outsider, a fresh face to American

politics. He always spoke his mind rather than give into the political jargon that democratic

presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton was already familiar with, who was already seen as

untrustworthy by many republicans as well as democrats. Trump’s rhetoric made him stand out

from the beginning of his presidential campaign and remained consistent until and beyond his

presidential election. The only differences between Trump’s ideals and puritan ideals are the

reasons for the failing of America are the loss of power and wealth, instead of a loss of moral,

and blaming it on others rather than looking inward. Puritan’s would report on the evils of the

land to the people, much in the same way Trump would. With his comments on Mexican and

Muslim immigrants are echoes of Puritan witch hunts. By ensuing irrational fear of

misunderstood groups of people or people who are been grossly represented by awful stereotypes

of their society, Trump is pursuing a modern-day witch hunt. The irrational fear that consumed

the puritan’s in the wake of the witch trains led to a rash generalization of women being witches,

leading to many women being unfairly brutalized and murdered. This is the same case with

minorities of this country. Many minorities were and are blamed by trump for the downfalls of

this country, and plagued by negative and damaging stereotypes that can lead to wrongful

convictions, irrational fear, and mass discrimination.

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This is shown in many of the speeches he gave throughout his campaign, and during his

presidential run; speech can be broken down into three different elements, first is that “America,

once great, is now weak and repeatedly humiliated by others…. America’s decline was framed as

resulting from the actions of its enemies…the third part of Trump’s argument went on to identify

the all-important solution: himself” (Haslam). These three key elements I feel are what

captivated a lot of his audience.

By stating that America is no longer the leader of the world, and is slowly losing power

to other countries such as Russia and China, Trump was already able to grab a hold of one part of

his voter base. For years, people have lost faith in their government, especially Obama’s

administration and how it dealt with situations such as economic decline, healthcare, as well as

ISIS and other forms of terrorism. People felt as though they weren’t being protected nor were

they being heard by the previous government. Trump responded to these fears by saying, “Our

country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but

we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade

deal? They kill us.” (Haslam). Trump was able to tap into what older, and some younger

Americans fears about the future of the country. Many older Americans feel that the success,

power, respect, and economy have declined, which makes Trump’s campaign promises and

message, “Make America great again”, that much more appealing.

This Slogan is a cry of nostalgia that appeals to voters young and old, to bring back

America to its roots, to make America the top priority in an increasingly globalized world.

Trump is the first presidents, in recent years, to claim that America is not the superpower of the

world. American now is “any but exceptional, indispensable, or great, though he alone could

make it great again” (Engelhardt). This simple sentence acknowledges that other countries, other
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global superpowers like China and Mexico, don’t respect America’s place in the world anymore.

Their economies are constantly growing, job prospects are on the rise, and China is closing in on

being the superpower of the world. America is on a constant decline.

The 1950’s and 1960’s, the years between World War 2 and before the Vietnam war,

were considered the “golden years of American power, America was a country of undoubted

power and greatness, a country that every president praised in the past. For example, John F.

Kennedys pre-inaugural speech about his plans for Washington, here he quoted Puritan John

Winthrop, wanting to create a country that people can look up to, and unspoken greatness of

American society at that time. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,

support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

(Engelhardt). This sense of national pride and strength is something that many Trump supporters

believe American society lacks today, at that time America was viewed as the country of

opportunity, a country that you can come to empty handed, create a business, then build yourself

up to greatness. However, businesses are outsourcing jobs for cheap labor, it’s harder to create

small business and have them flourish, and that entrepreneurship is disappearing.

A core belief of Trump voters was that American economic decline was caused by its

external enemies, such as China and Mexico, and many other countries that he deems evil, or

hostile to American interest. He blamed them for the abundance of unemployment that has

ravished many areas of the country, claiming that these countries cheat, and take jobs away from

American citizens. “Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don’t believe

the 5.6 Don’t believe it. That’s right. A lot of people up there can’t get jobs… because there are

no jobs, because China has our jobs, and Mexico has our jobs. They all have jobs” (Haslam).

Trump encouraged the idea that our economy and job market was in constant decline because of
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the outsourcing of factory jobs, to other countries such as the two stated above. Instead of

looking within the country for a problem, he instead placed the blame on other countries for the

shortcomings of our own. Blaming this takes the eye off what is really hurting the economy with

is the automation of jobs. Many of the jobs will be unable to come back due to the evolution of

programs and robots. Another thing that hurts the economy is because of the oligarchy of

American society. Big businesses stifle the ability for smaller own businesses to flourish. He

offered no explanations of why we aren’t producing more entrepreneurs, how to help nourish

them and help them grow.

Trump represents the traditional American dream, of building his business up from

scratch. Though he began with a “small loan of a million dollars,” he builds many businesses,

and create jobs for many Americans. This is what many of his supporters see. If Trump was able

to successfully build up a business and increase his worth, he should be able to improve

America’s economy, help produce American businesses, and bring jobs back to American soil.

During one of his rallies, he talked about his commitment to keeping companies on U.S. soil:

“Remember years ago, we used to proudly display ‘Made in the USA…We don’t see it…I don’t

see it anymore. We ought to start doing that. Any of the manufacturers that were doing a lot of

talking to a lot of companies that were thinking about leaving, and I tell ya, I don’t think they’re

going to be leaving so fast anymore” (Savransky). Now, it is no surprise that many of the jobs

formerly placed in American towns have been exported to China as well as Mexico; However,

Trump completely requires the reasons this has occurred, it’s cheaper, people are willing to work

more for less pay, and possibly looser laws. In 2013 it was reported that the jobs that were most

affected by this are technology, call centers, human resources, and manufacturing (Amadeo).

Because of this many American’s found themselves unemployed, according to Amadeo, that if
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14 million jobs are outsourced equals 7.5 million unemployed Americans, and if these jobs were

ever to return about 5.7 million would receive part-time jobs. However, these businesses are

unwilling to move back because even though American’s have the skills needed for the job,

Americans are unwilling to take a lower pay, like people in Mexico, China, and India.

Trump’s huge campaign promises really elevated him in the polls, especially in parts of

the America, mainly the rust belt, coal towns, and other small towns where people feel as though

he was going to be the one to do it. Trump elevated himself as the person who can restore

America’s economy and job market. People in middle America, and other rural areas believe that

since he is a business man and not a politician, he would be able to use his background to

influence companies to move back to American soil, and hire “legal Americans.” He set himself

up as someone who would be the savior of lower-class and working white Americans across the

nation who felt as though their voices were being drowned out by “minorities” or felt ignored by

previous presidential administrations.

The third element of trumps argument was to place himself as the savior of these people,

that he was the only person who could truly re-elevate America back to its former glory. He set

himself apart from other politicians, by showing himself as a successful business man who

knows how to get things done and make deals. He also argues that. According to Trump, “One of

the big banks came to me and said, ‘Donald, you don’t have enough borrowings. Could we loan

you $4 billion?’ I don’t need it. I don’t want it” (Haslam). Trump was able to effectively put

himself in a place where he could be the only candidate to “restore” America, because he cannot

be corrupt, like Hillary due to bribery, to what it once was. He is also able to effectively assess

and engage his audience, to a point where many of his supporters feel that they have a personal

connection to him. “I beat China all the time. All the time… I will bring it back bigger, and
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better, and stronger than ever before. And we will make America great again” (Haslam). By

using some key words such as we, you, us, he establishes a strong personal connection between

himself and his supporters.

Trump’s campaign was running in a truly unique fashion, not once during his presidential

campaign did I see a campaign ad on television, most of his campaign was through media

attention from the shocking things he did said, or someone dug up, his twitter, and his rallies.

Trump, unlike any other president, focused not on the well populated traditional campaign stops,

people who regularly voted in the election. Instead, Trump engaged unlikely voters during the

primaries, his campaign relied mostly on free media, frequent Tv appearances, and the use of the

internet.

During his campaign Trump dominated the airways and social media news cycles, everyday

always, there is no doubt that Trump won social media during his campaign run, and by doing

this was much more engaged with his voters compared to the other campaign runners. A director

of social media analyzed the trends and metrics during the election and found that,

“Overall, online interest in candidate Trump was three times higher than Clinton, according to

Google trends analysis. Trump was the most Googled candidate, and most mentioned on Twitter

and Facebook. Trump had 4 million more Twitter followers than Clinton. Clinton’s social media

engagement increased somewhat by the third debate, but by then many voters had made up their

minds.” (Khan).

His social media exposure was surely a key component to his victory, one thing that Trump had

going for him that the other candidates didn’t was his ability to market himself due to being a

business man. Trump new the importance of making himself known and was already well known
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before entering politics, running television shows, and being a very popular businessman. Aside

from that he also knows how to capture people attention he is a performer, and knew that using

different forms of media, especially social would get instant reactions.

Trump and his campaign team also just knew how to work social media in a way that

Clinton’s team didn’t, though Clinton without a doubt is much more polished during debates,

rallies, and speeches however when it came to social media, that is where the majority of the

attention is placed, because of this he is able to get information out through his own accounts

with instant reactions, as well as non-stop media attention, good or bad, from just about every

major media outlet.

A big downfall for the Clinton campaign was that unlike trump she was ridged, a product of

politics, while Trump is the furthest thing, and he took advantage of this. Clinton’s media

presence was nothing attention grabbing, “Trump’s tweets are provocative because they strike

raw nerves, speaking bodly to themes that people struggle to work through: race, nationalism

verses globalism, financial insecurity, status inequity, sexism, and more” (Bickart, Fournier,

Nisenholtz). This raw presentation of himself creates a strong personal connection between

himself and his supporters. Trump used twitter to address his audience as individuals, his tweets

show exactly who he is and who he will be in office. This authenticity caused a stronger base of

influence than general tweets could ever create.

His ability to connect to his voter base is what really set him apart from other

competitors, he embodied traditional family values, a hard-working business man, who works for

his money, which appeals to many older and/ or traditional Americans. He also spoke to many

Americans who were tired of a traditional president, in a time of political correctness many of his

supporters feel as though they are not able to voice many of their opinions without being
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attacked. To them, Trump represented what they desired that they can speak on, criticize and

insult as much as they please without the annoyance of someone who disagreed with their

statement or how it was said. He spoke to middle America people who feel as though they are

being left behind and forgotten by the U.S government in favor of wealthier more urban areas,

fulfilling their needs and improving their living space, while theirs fall into ruin due to the ruin of

the coal region as well as the outsourcing of jobs that use to allow these areas of America to

flourish. He spoke to the small businessmen and women, who believed that with a little hard

work their American Dream could be achieved. People like this saw something in Trump that

they couldn’t see in any other Republican President or couldn’t see in Hillary Clinton.

Not only did the people who he ran against help Trump clench the 2016 presidential

election, it could be argued that the Obama administration also pushed Trump into the white

house. Obama helped Trumps electoral win by ignoring the plights of rural America. Unlike

urban areas, rural America ran on manufacturing jobs that have been there for years. While the

city has an abundance of finance and service industries that have created 1000’s of jobs. Though

Obama was able to relieve some of the burden of middle America with his healthcare policy,

Obama never truly addressed the employment crises in these areas of the United States,

especially with the 2012 elections where neither he nor Mitt Romney targeted the economic

problems that were gaining traction. “This sense of neglect made rural Americans more receptive

to outsider candidates and unconventional political rhetoric. What happened in 2012 made white

rural Americans open to the kind of messages that Trump would make to them four years later”

(Orejel). Trump was able to pick up the pieces that Obama dropped by having a consistent

message on the loss of manufacturing jobs, horrible trade policies, and regulations that failed the
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people of these areas. His pro-business policies are what gained the faith of the people of middle

America.

The issue of healthcare also possibly helped Trump with the election, “according to USA

Today’s exit polls, half of the middle class voted for Trump, as did half of voters who make

$100,000 a year or more…Similarly, in the primaries, the median household income of a Trump

voter was $72,000-more than the $61,000 the median Hillary Clinton voter made.” (Khazan).

Many people who voted for Trump believed that Obamacare oversteps its boundaries, while

many Clinton voters believed that it could do more (Khazan). Though the policies did a lot for

many lower-class American being able to get the coverage it put a strain on many of America’s

income brackets. Under the affordable care at people who couldn’t get health insurance under

their employers can receive subsidies to by state-based health insurance, however, those are only

offered by people who earn well above the poverty line, which led to people who didn’t qualify

to have their health insurance prices skyrocket.

Trumps promise to repeal and replace Obama’s healthcare policy though vague was

enough for some of his supporters to vote for him. Many of his voters believe that Obamacare

meddles too much into the lives of ordinary American citizens. Trump promised that the

healthcare bill that he would pass during his presidential run would allow every American to be

covered, and would be a lot less expensive for every American citizen. “We’re going to have

insurance for everybody…There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it,

you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” (Jackson) he promises no cuts to Medicaid,

that no one will lose coverage, it won’t worsen the financial stability of American homes, and

that every American will be taken care of. These promises also would put a huge tax break on

the wealthy as well as insurers, and prevent federal funds from reimbursing planned parenthood
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for any health services it provides. These promises really helped Trump especially the removal

of tax dollars going to planned parenthood since most of his voters are outspokenly prolife.

The stance on immigration is also one that struck a cord with many of Trumps supporters.

Many people believed that Obama’s immigration policies were too lax on who can come into the

country, and supposedly the amount of illegal immigration in the United States has increased

since his election. Obama also implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program

better known as DACA to allowed children who were brought over by their guardians as kids

can receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and are eligible to

work in the U.S. This helped millions of people to be able to remain in a country that they are

familiar with instead of being shipped back to one where they possibly don’t know the culture

nor the language. Yet, this program was met with criticism from many Trump supporters. Also,

Obama’s stance of letting refugees into the U.S. didn’t sit well with many Trump supporters,

seeing them as threats to the U.S. and the statement that they refuse or even attempt to assimilate

into American society. Going as far to claim that they want to implement sharia law on

American soil. It was stated that the Obama administration, “plans to admit 110,000 refugees

from around the world to the United States over the next year.” (Toosi and Kim). This 2016 goal

didn’t sit well with many republicans claiming that it undermines American culture, and

endangers many American citizens.

Many of Trump’s supporters want a complete removal of all illegal immigrants, whom

they see as criminals. Many people who want to see the end of these immigration policies

believe that these people pose a security threat, that they bring crime, and drugs, and gangs into

the U.S. They also believe that these people coming over are stealing jobs from American

citizens, and are an economic burden due to welfare, health care and educational costs of their
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children. A poll taken by Doherty showed that “66% of registered voters who supported Trump

in the general election call immigration a very big problem in the country…79% of Trump

support favor building a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border…Just 35% of Trump

supporters say undocumented immigrants take jobs U.S. citizens would like to have, and a third

say that they are less hard-working and honest than citizens.” (Doherty). Illegal immigration has

been apart of Trump’s rhetoric from the beginning of his campaign and is most strongly used in

his repeated statement that he is going to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, to stop

people crossing the border and strop the transportation of drugs into the country. In the case of

taking in refugees from war torn countries, especially Syrian refugees was debate point in the

2016 presidential election, with Donald Trump wanting to end the Syrian refugee program all

together, arguing that terrorist could be hiding among them. “We must remain compassionate

towards refugees, but we also need to make sure that we use common sense, said House

Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia. Unfortunately,

President Obama unilaterally increases the number of refugees resettled in the United States each

year and gives little thought as to how it will impact local communities.” (Toosi and Kim). The

Republicans believe that opening the border could expose the United States to many more

terrorist attacks, many Trump supporters believe that it threatens American culture. Trump's

response to this was to implement a travel ban, banning immigrants from several countries in the

middle east. By doing this many Trump supporters believe that it creates a safer space for

American citizens, and preserves American culture, that many of them felt was under threat.

Obama administration’s stance on gun control also helped Trump's case, throughout his

8-year run as president there was always arguments of him wanting to take away guns from

American citizens, taking away their 2nd amendment rights. Obama argues that allowing easy
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access to guns are a danger to American citizens, and this is shown again and again through

constant mass shootings that plague American society. “Reinstate the assault weapons ban. Make

it harder for terrorists to use these weapons to kill us. Otherwise despite extraordinary efforts

across out government… these kinds of events are going to keep on happening, and the weapons

are only going to get more powerful.” (Wheaton), Obama’s argument on the 2nd Amendment is

that tougher regulations on certain types of guns, and making it more difficult to obtain guns,

with pushing for more background checks, and a lengthy mental evaluation to obtain a gun.

Many people looked at the Obama administration as imposing on their American rights,

by attempting to make it harder for citizens to obtain guns, and banning, or attempting to ban,

certain types of guns that ordinary American citizens could use. “91 percent of Republican gun

owners say owning a firearm is essential to their freedom compared with 43 percent of

Democratic gun owners.” (Porter). During his Campaign, Trump promised that he would defend

the rights of gun owners, and received strong support from the National Rifal Association. A poll

taken by Pew Research Center showed that about “90 percent of Trump supporters backed gun

rights over gun control. The same poll showed that 44 percent of Republicans and Republican-

leaning independents own firearms, compared to just 20 percent of Democrats and Democrat-

leaning independents.” (Porter). From the beginning of his campaign, Trump argued that the

government should allow gun rights for law-abiding citizens and argue that armed citizens could

help end the mass shooting epidemic. Which many of his supporters agree with, arguing that if

there is an armed citizen during one of these attacks they will be able to better protect themselves

from harm, and help ends a mass shooting event, with fewer causalities and not having to rely on

quick police response.

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There is no argument that they way that Trump handled his campaign, confused some,

empowered others, and angered many. However, if you look back at American history,

America’s since of superiority, the displacement of American Indians, racism, wars we waged,

previous presidential administrations and a loss of American sense of identity and their loss of

power in the scope of globalization pushed Trump into the Whitehouse. Many of Trump

supporters believe that under Trump America can return to the greatness that it once held. Many

of Trump supporters fear what the world is becoming with the looming threat of terrorist attacks,

the influx of immigrants and refugees threatening American identity, the loss of many

manufacturing jobs on American soil and that he isn’t a traditional president. In his supporter’s

eyes, Trump represents core American values, and an embodiment of what they want in a

president, someone who will put America first, bring jobs back to middle America and bring

back American greatness and culture which they feel has been stolen from them under the

Obama administration. To them, Trump is the savior that America needs a president that will

revive the American dream, uphold conservative laws, protect their guns, and help elevate many

of middle and rural America out of poverty.

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