Language in the Trump Era

Earlyin his campaign Donald Trump boasted that ''I know words. I have the best words'' yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style shock-tweeting and weaponized words. Using many detailed examples this fascinating and highly topical book reveals how Trump''s rallying cries boasts accusations and mockery enlist many of his supporters into his alternate reality. From Trump''s relationship to the truth to his use of gesture to the anti-immigrant tenor of his language it illuminates theless obvious mechanisms bywhich language in the Trump era haswidened divisionsalong lines of class gender race international relations andeven the sense of truth itself.