How Donald Trump Tweeted his Way into the White House

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dc.contributor.advisorAdelman, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorKnowles, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-15T14:57:53Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores a selection of Donald Trump’s most popular tweets during the 2016 presidential election, seeking to answer two questions: What image did Trump create for himself using Twitter, and how did this image help him connect with his base? I use discourse analysis, which examines how power creates meaning through language, to categorize the tweets and to provide a better understanding of why Trump’s persuasive strategy was successful. This analysis led me to conclude that Trump used Twitter to cultivate his base’s predisposed beliefs about the government’s weakness and corruption while simultaneously portraying himself as the only candidate who could save the country from its problems.
dc.description.urihttps://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2020/05/umbcReview_2020.pdf#page=131
dc.format.extent26 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2o9x8-dcwg
dc.identifier.citationKNOWLES, ALISON. “How Donald Trump Tweeted His Way into the White House.” UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research 21 (2020): 131–56. https://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2020/05/umbcReview_2020.pdf#page=131
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/41142
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Media and Communication Studies
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC School of Public Policy
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