Rhetorical Analysis Of Donald Trump's Address

Donald Trump was elected on November 8th, 2016 and became the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017. The President’s speech was unlike any other, he gave a very populist message that was an influence on the campaign trail, as well. President Trump starts off his speech stressing the importance of joining “in a great national effort to rebuild our country” and then slowly moves on to basically subtweeting the last presidency. He states that DC has “reaped the rewards of the government” while the people do not receive any of it. He focuses on the problems of our nation but gives us no means to fix it; the promises made during his campaigns, such as the wall and the banning of Muslims, were nonexistent from his speech. At a time where America is, obviously, economically steady, he described a nation with “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape.” A nation with failing schools, streets littered with gang violence; Trump describes this as “American carnage” and promised that it “stops right here and stops right now.” Although he vowed to rethink America’s foreign affairs, immigration policy, taxes, etc, he never really gave a plan to elaborate these ideas.
This country is built on immigrants and any educated, informed individual, would know the detrimental effects that would have on the economy. A portion of the speech was also fictitious, he mentioned an alternative fact stating that more people voted for him rather than his opponent, but statistics show that Mrs. Clinton won by 2.86 million. Mr. Trump’s speech was extremely grim but towards the end it became inspiring; he chanted the words “Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy