How Trump Thinks
His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2017
256 pages
978-1-78669-664-9 (ISBN)
Description
The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, 'alternative facts' and outright lies. And they helped him win power.
Peter Oborne, author of The Rise of Political Lying and Not The Chilcot Report, analyses Trump's incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises, and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly crafted propaganda has destabilized the world's most powerful democracy.
Peter Oborne, author of The Rise of Political Lying and Not The Chilcot Report, analyses Trump's incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises, and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly crafted propaganda has destabilized the world's most powerful democracy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-664-9 (9781786696649)
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Peter Oborne is a columnist for the Daily Mail and former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph. One of Britain's most distinguished and independent political writers, his books include The Triumph of the Political Class and Wounded Tiger.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About How Trump Thinks
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Note about URLs
- Introduction
- Trump - the heir of tradition
- Proto Trumps of the twentieth century
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- The Radio Priest
- The prophecy of Sinclair Lewis
- Joe McCarthy's Silly Numbers
- Trump revives Nixon's "silent majority"
- Why Hillary Clinton could not hit back
- The power of Twitter
- 2009: Pushing Product: Trump's early Tweets
- 2010: "I saw Lady Gaga last night and she was fantastic"
- 2011: The birth of a new political language: Trump discovers his voice
- 2012: "Let's take a closer look at that birth certificate"
- 2013: "The Russians are playing a very smart game"
- 2014: "I WOULD BUILD A BORDER FENCE LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE"
- 2015: "Let's Make America Great Again!"
- 2016: All Aboard the Trump Train
- After the Election: FAKE NEWS
- Endnotes
- Trump Bibliography
- A Trump Twitter Lexicon
- Twitter Glossary
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- About Peter Oborne and Tom Roberts
- Also by Peter Oborne
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
