Assignment about Politics, Democracy and Media

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Introduction
Donald Trump is the 45th and the current president of the United States. Donald Trump
was born and brought up in the New York City, in the municipality of Queens. He studied in an
economics school, particularly, Wharton School, a school affiliated to the University of
Pennsylvania. Donald Trump made an early venture into business, by taking up the family
business and reconstructed it to be the trump Organization. Through, the varied activities that
aided the expansion of the reconstructed company that defined the family business, Donald
Trump, who directed the activities, was able to acquire different premises, among them shops,
hotels, casinos, and skyscrapers. Among the daring abilities depicted by Trump in his early
conformities, is the venture in the literature world. One of the defining moments that ascribed
Donald Trump to some dominance in the literature world, is the production of his book called,
The Art of the Deal. Trump commenced contention to the higher office in the presidential
primaries as a contender with the Republican ticket. Trump defeated the other 16 contenders, and
was chosen to flag the Presidential candidature on a Republican ticket. Through strenuous
moments of campaign, Donald Trump popularized his ideologies, aided by his populist slogan of
“Make America Great Again.” His unbeatable efforts made him to be elected, in a surprising
victory to the greatest office in the American soil. He defeated an ardent rival from the
Democratic counterparts, who are the most popular in the United States. Currently, Donald
Trump is the head of the prestigious and the most powerful office in the American soil and very
influential in the political world. Recently, the 45th president policies have been critiqued
pending his incessant misleading remarks that have wavered the public interest. Donald Trump
has received criticisms, bounded by his indefinite methods that are encompassed in his
approaches of ruling the most powerful land in the world. The current president has been on spot,
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following his racist remarks and confounded harsh policies on immigration. In this paper, a
detailed exposition of the main political communication factors that led to the rise of Donald
Trump to political office, and implications of the rise of Donald Trump in the United States of
America to the rest of the political world, which will give suggestions to the state of political
communication in the current age, have been expounded in the discussion of this paper.
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Part One of the Question
Owing to the first part of the question, there is an inquiry, which will expound the main
political communication factors that propelled the ascension of Donald Trump to the presidential
political office, in the United States of America. Comparative efforts can be appreciative with the
yielding moments. Some defining moments coupled with the glory of victory and capacitated re-
establishments, are impacted by the strategies constructed to objectify the goals and the visions
of people and the organizations. That is the case that is testimonial on the current powerful
person in the American soil, Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America.
Donald Trump, a man of resilience and fervent optimism, has been attributed to the various
conforming nuggets, which led to his ascension to the presidential office, in the United States of
America. Various definite factors and ascriptions, which propelled the Donald trump to the
leadership in the United States, are taken into account. Among these are the major political
variables and strategies that led to the rise of Donald Trump in office. Though, some of the
methods that propelled Donald Trump into political office are a paint down of a cracked
exposition, shockingly, Donald Trump has been able to navigate his way to victory and to the
powerful office in the world and the American soil. On many occasions, Donald Trump has been
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badly cited on his contradicting policies, which curtailed the freedom of certain races residing in
the United States of America and has been taunted on his discriminating policies of immigration.
In this context, an evaluation of what attributed to the rise of Donald Trump into office, have
been described in this part.
One of the best strategies applied by Donald Trump during the campaign periods is the
involvement of the media in spreading the president’s ideologies (Kreiss, 2015). In the current
age of revolution and innovation, media is significant in impelling the sophisticated adoptive
methodologies, which are influential to generate positivity and spread the strategies and
objectives of the person contending for a public office. Adaptive to this significant factor,
Donald Trump popularized his ambitions and spelt out his ideas with the help of the media
(McNair, 2017). In 2016, during the presidential campaign, the role of media was significant in
defining the politics of the United States of America (Orr & Gauja, 2014). Donald Trump used
the opportunity to spread his ambitions to the people of America. Sometimes, complaints were
being leveled to the stakeholders, on why the current president was allowed to have frequent
access to the mass media outlets in the United States of America. The media largely attributed
the popularization of the Trump’s candidacy (Gaber, 2000). The framing of the political agendas
and the regular debates on designated media outlets in the United States of America, attributed to
the popularization of Donald Trump’s ideologies (Norris, 2000). During such special
opportunities, Donald Trump, a competitive contender on a Republican ticket, utilized the
prospecting moments to express himself to many people across the states. He was able to
articulate his ambitions, the strategies of his projects that he recommended to implement to the
people of the United States of America.
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