The President or First Child: The Case of Donald Trump

Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, in their article “Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment” (2017), assert that President Trump utterly dishonored, demeaned, and degraded his attorney general Jeff Sessions in a manner that portrays his quick temper unfit for a president. The authors describe President Trump’s ridicule of Sessions and how he “unleashed a string of insults” onto Sessions only to leave him on his staff after hearing advice from his advisors and high staff members, and the subsequent undercutting of Sessions and his new immigration policy. The authors point to President Trump’s emotional instability and quick and child-like temper, in order to prove that he is simply not fit to lead any country, let alone our country. The authors speak to the American people along with Trump and his staff, as they seek to inform and incite a feeling of contempt and resent along with pressuring the White House and the president.

Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman’s article points out one of the most notable flaws in the standing President: his child-like tendencies and quick temper are unfit to rule the great United States of America. While I do agree with the thesis and main points of the article, I strongly disagree with the authors’ prefix “Mr.” given to President Trump. Whether or not one supports the standing president, he was elected as president of our country through the normal election process. He is the standing president and deserves to be given the proper respect and the proper titles. While the authors did refer to President Trump as “President Trump” in the first paragraph, they then switched and referred to him as “Mr. Trump.” While his approval ratings may be astronomically low and he has yet to clearly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists, he is still our president. Other than that one small point, I completely agree with the ideas and notions hinted to and said in the article. In addition to verbal communication, another location where Trump likes to display his child-like mannerisms, is on Twitter at almost any time of day. As a follower of President Trump, I receive notifications from all of his tweets and am shocked, bewildered, and amused from many of his tweets on an hourly basis. What’s even more astonishing about his tweets, is his ability to quickly switch from tweeting a president like message to minutes later unleashing a string of insults on a person or company. Take for example the recent hurricanes. This past week, Trump went to Florida to take in first-hand the destruction brought in from the brutal Hurricane Irma. Thus, he went to Twitter to share his motivational and determined goal to recover and regain more strength than ever before, truly an American message from the man who should stand as a representation of what this country stands for. However, minutes later, President Trump, as he did Friday morning will an unleash a Twitter storm on a person or company. On Friday morning he went after ESPN, referring to Sports Center host Jemele Hill’s tweets about Trump, where she called him a white supremacist. President Trump went on to attack ESPN, calling them a dying company that is losing viewers at an incredible rate. Trump’s raid on ESPN is so ridiculous, it’s laughable. First off, everybody knows ESPN and frankly all of TV is dying, it’s not like Trump is telling ESPN they have not known for years already. And secondly, what does ESPN dying have to do with anything. But, it gets worse. Just this past weekend Trump retweeted a GIF that shows his golf ball hitting former first lady Hillary Clinton. An edited GIF, it’s quite child-like but still did not stop the President from retweeting it. Trump’s playground bully techniques have grown old and have gone too far. Simply put, he does not represent the ideal form of America, and he is unfit to sit as the president of this country. Think about it, what if Obama, Bush, or Clinton bullied their way through the presidency.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/politics/jeff-sessions-trump.html    

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  1. Ashley BrownOctober 26, 2017 at 2:22 PM

    Major problem here: you can't write a RHETORICAL precis about a news article. It has to be an opinion piece. How can you analyze the persuasive technique when there's not persuasion?

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