President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse

INTRODUCTION by Michele Lockhart

PART I: THE CAMPAIGN, THE TWITTERSPHERE, AND THE "NEW AGE" OF RHETORIC: TRUTH VERSUS REALITY
1. Seizing the Populist Rhetorical Toolkit: a Comparative Analysis of Trump and Clinton's Discourse on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign by Francisco Seoane Perez, Irene Asiain Roman, and Javier Lorenzo Rodriguez
2. Of Twit-storms and Demagogues: Trump, Illusory Truths of Patriotism, and the Language of the Twittersphere by Dawn F. Colley
3. The Dark Alchemy of Donald Trump: Re-inventing Presidential Rhetorics through Christian and "New Age" Discourses by Lance Cummings

PART II: POWER AND ABUSE ABROAD AND AT HOME: FOREIGN POLICY VIA TWITTERVERSE, "BULLSHIT," AND "NUT JOB"
4. President Trump's Tweets on the Middle East, North Korea, and Russia: the Constructive and the Unconstructive by Anish Dave
5. The Paradox of Dissent: Bullshit and the Twitter Presidency by Christopher Carter
6. Crazy, Insane, Nut Job, Wacko, Basket Case, and Psycho: Donald Trump's Tweets Surrounding Mental Health Issues and Attacks on Media Personalities by Sarah Smith-Frigerio and J. Brian Houston
7. Habitat for Inhumanity: How Trolls Set the Stage for @realDonaldTrump by Erec Smith

PART III: "FAKE NEWS" AND MADNESS: READ, RE-TWEET, AND TEACH ALL ABOUT IT
8. Tweet the Press: Effects of Donald Trump's "Fake News!" Epithet on Civics and Popular Culture by Dorian Hunter Davis and Aram Sinnreich
9. Setting the "Fake News" Agenda: Trump's Use of Twitter and the Agenda-Building Effect by Rod Carveth
10. Digital Sophistry: Trump, Twitter, and Teaching about Fake News by Bryan A. Lutz