Political Communication Factors in Donald Trump's Election

This essay examines the political communication strategies that contributed to Donald Trump's rise to the presidency, focusing on the role of media, social media, and financial capabilities. It explores how Trump utilized media outlets to disseminate his ideologies, including the framing of political agendas and debates, and how social media enabled him to connect directly with voters and assess the effectiveness of his policies. The essay also analyzes the impact of financial resources on Trump's campaign and the role of deliberative democracy in his success. Furthermore, it discusses the implications of Trump's victory on political communication, including the importance of fiscal ability, the uncertainties in electoral systems, and the encouragement it provided to potential political candidates. The paper highlights the significance of strategic communication in achieving political objectives and its impact on the future of political campaigns.

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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
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approaches of ruling the most powerful land in the world. The current president has been on spot,
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
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powerful office in the world and the American soil. On many occasions, Donald Trump has been
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
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articulate his ambitions, the strategies of his projects that he recommended to implement to the
people of the United States of America.
Donald amassed a huge following in the social cycles, igniting fresh compositions to the
people of the United States of America. The social media has a lot of people. A huge number of
the people in the United States of America have a huge liking on the social streams. According to
the Editorial board of the New York Times 2018, ‘A free press needs you’, The New York
Times, accessed February 4, 2019, people utilize the social scenes to target specific audiences. In
that case, Donald Trump with the help of the social media cycles was able to popularize his
candidacy and gained a mass following. The following that Donald Trump gained in the social
scenes, propelled the development of his ideologies to the people in the United States of
America. According to Francia, 2018, one can figure out the intensity of the flows in the social
media cycles and relate it to the popularization of the candidacy of Donald Trump, when he was
vying for a political office in the United States of America. Finally, social media is very
instrumental to post ideas and policies of a potential candidate, vying for a political office.
Posting the ideas and policies can assess positively and negatively, depending on the
impressions, which the general public has on what has been posted in the social media cycles
(Strömbäck, 2012). In essence, social media enabled Donald Trump to assess the effectiveness of
his policies and ideas to the general public of the United States of America.
Some of the critiqued policies about racism and nativism latent to the people of the
United States of America were actually valued and regarded by the American natives
(Richardson, 2017). Many nations that have the majorities of the white people, usually, are
encoded with supremacy tendencies on the other races. That is a case, which highlighted the
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perceived remarks of racism and nativism that aided in the popularization of Donald Trump to
political office. It is evident in many European countries that there is discrimination that has
been on the race, which has been depicted to be superior. For instance, in the most popular game
in the world, football or soccer, there are bad moments, which indicate the prominence of these
vice, which has been rooted in the minds of people. Another significant factor that gave birth to
the ascension of Donald Trump to the political office in the United States of America is the
pecuniary malaise among the Democratic and the Republican candidates. Donald Trump had
rooted fiscal abilities, which sustained his contention to the office. Worldly, Donald Trump is
known to be among the greatest businessmen in the world. This financial ability, anchored the
attribution of finances to aid in the processes of navigating to the highest political office in the
American land. The financial disabilities of the other candidates made them to pull out of the
nominations, prompting an open chance to the capable aspirants like Donald Trump.
Lastly, there is an evaluation of the input of deliberative democracy, to the success of
Donald Trump, in the 2016 presidential elections in the United States of America. In other
descriptive terms, Errington & Miragliotta, 2011 alluded that representative democracy institutes
consensual decision making techniques and popularizes the “Let the Majority Rule” slogan.
Deliberative democracy has been cited to be instrumental in politics. According to the Financial
Times, a number of scholars and political scientists have described that “deliberative democracy
is what politics needs”. With the help of the principles of this type of democracy, Donald Trump,
through a negotiation platform, was stationed to be the presidential candidate, on a Republican
ticket. If the negotiations were not fruitful for the party representatives, in endorsing the
candidature of Donald Trump to be the flag of their party, Donald Trump would have been
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declared to be incapacitated to run for the political office. However, through successful
discussions that arrived at a conclusion of endorsing Donald Trump to the presidential
candidature, he was able to acquire the mandate of being the party flag bearer.
Part Two of the Question
The implication of Donald trump to political office, on the state of the political
communication today can be defined in innumerable terms. Some of these implications refer to
the possible impressions of having an unexpected outcome s, when carrying out elections. Also,
these implications indicate the uncertainties marked in the electoral systems, which imprints
legitimacy issues to the governing bodies. Elections being a significant outline to the revolution
that any state desires, at times, can have both perceptions of bad and good implications to the
people who want to venture into politics. This discussion can be founded on the strategies, which
propelled Donald Trump to office and the application to the future political candidates of the
United States of America and even the implication that Donald Trump victory has on the
mapping of the world politics. Being the roadmap to any contention, strategies outline the
inbound outcomes of fulfilling any of the political, social, and the economic objectives (Obama,
2009). The declaration of Donald Trump, to be the winner of the 2016 presidential election,
offered a substantive encouragement to the potential candidates, who had desire to venture into
politics, in order to gain a political office.
The first implication to the politics of the current age is that fiscal ability is significant
when vying for a political office. This can be related to Donald Trump contention to ascend to
presidency. Donald Trump was a candidate, who had economically established his productive
economical empires (Sclafani, 2017). Sometimes, money can have an influence to the people.
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Donald Trump, a business person, who has vast investments in the business world, was able to
use his financial ability to fund the sporadic campaigns. Thus, he was able to channel a lot of
funds to spearhead his political campaigns. A candidate will be able to move to designated places
in the states, if the candidate has enough financial resources to sustain various campaigns
activities and make his or her ideologies known to the people. In any Free State around the
world, vying for a political office requires a lot of impute. The imputed factors will enable a
candidate to develop programs, which will aid in the popularization of the varied beneficial
ideologies, which are significant to the people who are the main determinants of the election.
Besides, in a state that is conformed to the principles of democracy, people believe that
power has been rested on the people, who endorse the candidates through the casting of the
votes. However, that will not always be the implication (Glover, 2011). To the people, who are
the potential to vie for a public office, sometimes, they have to know that democracy can be
undermined. Despite, the activities of dejecting the democratic rights of people, one might seek
justice, but the ruling will not be integral. The power that is rested upon the people, at times, this
power is undermined. Some of the factors that may undermine the democratic rights of the
people, who have the democratic power, to endorse a potential candidate in office have been
explained in this narrative. One of them is the failure of the electoral systems, which are utilized
for the computation of the final counts of the casted votes. In such a case, when the systems do
not have a back-up memory that will indicate the original data, supposed to make the final tallies
of the votes, democracy might be well-practiced. Also, the candidates with power and influence
in any state, who have authoritative control over the functions of the governments, may curtail
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the democracy. For instance, such people can use the position to ensure the final results of the
elections.
Media is significant for all candidates, who want to be popular for a political office
(Bennett, 2017). Media plays a significant role when availing information, which describes the
values, cultures, and the prosperities of people or organizations. In this case, media was a
paramount determinant to the popularization of Donald Trump for his candidacy. Here, a number
of factors have been taken into consideration. Some of these factors that show that the media is
important are: the reliability of the media to reach many people and some of the policies of the
media evade, which discrimination, creating room for equality. Information from the media can
be accessed in print and electronically, using the portable devices, enhancing reliability of the
media systems. Also, the conveniences of the media are portrayed, when in need of the emerging
news that touch the political, social, and the economic scenes (Howard, 2019). And finally,
media gives a wide coverage of the vital matters affecting the states, with a deeper evaluation
and statistical approach to such matters, are discussed in detail with the help of the media
(Birmingham, 2012).
Another implication is that being popular and gaining the popular vote might not actually
reflect on the secret ballot (Lewis, 2019). Sometimes, the companies which asses the
popularization of the candidates, can be biased based on foregrounding circumstances. Referring
to the case of the United States politics, Hillary Clinton, who was a Democratic candidate, won
the popular vote in the 2016 elections, but the final election results, announced Donald Trump as
the winner of the elections and was sworn into office. Arguably, Watts, DK & Rothschild, 2017,
alluded that one can be popular in the political world, but that will not account for the final
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results in the secret ballot. Though, this can be influenced by a number of factors, the implication
of winning an election on a popular vote is not certain. One of the factors is the inefficiency in
the electoral systems (Sanders & Canel, 2013). Among the instances, which might depict this
inefficiency, are the irregularities committed by the officers in the electoral bodies. Also, a
potential candidature might be having a popular vote, but the votes casted can be declared as
spoilt votes, hence, not accounted in the final computations. There are many people who are
popular in the states. These people include: musicians, actors, sporting heroes, business
technocrats and moguls. Being popular will not certainly define the projection to win a political
office. Many things are taken into consideration, when vying to get a political office. Moreover,
one can be popular with bad ideologies that are not likeable to the people. Also, one might be
popular with the heroic acts to the state. However, that popularization will not truly define the
capacity of that person to hold a public political office (Miller, 2019).
Little efforts inputted to carry out a project, contribute to the greater lengthy efforts that
impacted to the formulation of that project (Young, 2008). In this case, the little things that
Donald Trump performed, when he was not in a political office, greatly influenced the
popularization of his ideologies to the people of the United States of America. Some of these
particulars will indicate the development of an acceptable personal decorum and having an
attributive conduct, which will positively impact the people, who are the major determinants.
Donald Trump used the social made to mass his followers and spread his ideologies to the people
(Trump, 2017). Usually, people take lightly the significance of social media, in the development
of the person in various productive sectors. Every effort that is projected to achieve something
should be considered. Many factors that spell out the little efforts, which will indicate the
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progresses made when undertaking a certain project, are deemed to be significant. Factors like
the public conduct of the candidate, the consent the candidate has to the vital matters of the state,
and the overall capability of handling the given tasks, largely contribute to mass belief from the
supporters (Blair, 2007). Being a powerful state in the world, the United States of America
politics are grounded on various contributory factors, which will spell out the legibility that will
define the qualification of the candidate to have a vie for the political office. One of these factors
is the moral proficiency of the candidates (Mills, 2014). In the United States, an aspirant with
incapacitated moral demeanor might be considered unfit for political office.
Needless to mention, vying for political office does not require experience in political
matters, nor determined by how the candidature has a powerful connection to the higher offices
in the land (Jeremy Paxman interviews Michael Howard’ 1997, BBC Newsnight). Also, relating
to the trump situation of political experience. Donald Trump is a living testimony, who is a
potential to this adage. Taking into comparability the capacitation that Hillary Clinton had, with
the ability of the Donald Trump, who won the 2016 presidential election, one will deduce that
the Democratic candidate was expected to be the winner of the election. Hillary Clinton had
political experience, born from the past governments of the 44th president of the United States of
America, His Imminent President Barrack Obama. Serving as a Secretary to the State, Hillary
Clinton was the most preferred candidate, to be declared the winner of the 2016 presidential
election, since she had political experience. On the other hand, the experience of Donald Trump
in political matters is not quite definite (Chozick, 2017). But, Donald Trump instituted his
candidature on a Republican ticket and was declared the winner of the presidential election. This
alludes that the fact that success in any field may not actually be defined the vast knowledge and
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experience of the person in that particular field. However, what the person has been ascribed to
achieve after the formulation of the effective strategies to anchor the aims and the objectives of
the person. All the other aspirants who have hunger for a political office, impacted by the urge
and the determination the person has for the people of the sovereign state, are challenged to cast
down their fears and run to the finish line. The potential candidates who have been envisioned to
develop the nation, but their dreams are short-lived by the unpredicted apparent outcomes of
elections, should strategize on how they will rise to victory, and live the American dream.
Conclusively, the potential candidates who want any position should overcome their
inadequacies and fit themselves as possible conquerors (Reece, 2015,).
Sometimes, the selected and announced results will not reflect the true results of an
election (Brent, 2019). Contextually, the ability to win an election is positively predicted by the
popular vote. In any genuine case that impacts the election procedures, the lead winner of an
election is usually determined by how popular the candidate is compared to the aspirant. This
designates that the credibility of the electoral systems are at times questionable. That is why; one
candidate can be popular than the other candidate, but finally one will find the unpopular
candidate getting declared the winner of the election. Reasonably, manipulation can be done on
all corners, even to the integral issues significant to avail the credibility of a nation in handling
nationalistic agendas. Also, this designates that legitimacy in the results of carrying out an
election is not guaranteed (McGuire, 2019). Digging deeper into the previous elections in the
United States of America, for instance, the candidacy of the Democratic candidate, led by
Barrack Obama, it was obvious that the popular would win the vote of the people. However, for
this case of Donald trump winning the election without the popular vote shows that even the
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integral issues affecting the welfare of a nation can be averted. Also, not every election will be
done perfectly. Irregularities in the election will impose false results of the elections. In this
context, one will find the person who had less votes being declared as the winner, while the
aspirant with majority votes not declared as the winner.
The 2016 presidential elections had gender implications to the political aspirants in the
United States of America (Bongiorno, 2019). Hillary Clinton, a female aspirant on a Democratic
ticket, was the most popular candidate during the 2016 election. On the other hand, Donald
Trump, a male aspirant on a Republican ticket, was the less popular candidate in the 2016
presidential election. The final results that announced Donald Trump, a male Republican
candidate, the winner of the presidential election, despite being the less popular, shows the
discrimination that the society has on women. While Hillary Clinton, a female aspirant on a
Democratic ticket, was declared to be second in the final results of the presidential election.
Figuratively, one can deduce that women are not considered for higher positions of office. In a
male dominated world, the abject denial of women to hold major political offices, like the office
of the president, indicates the abuse that the society has on women. Just like the other
circumstances of inequality in the social, cultural, and the economic scenes. Besides, this shows
that the society is yet to bridge the gap of gender inequality (Ekstrom, 2015). Even, the
developed and the most powerful states in the world like the United States of America have not
been able to capture the injustices done on women. Referred to the outcomes of the 2016
presidential election, it is clearly defined that women have been denied responsibilities which are
equal to their counterparts. Hence, this poses questions to the society and the ruling authorities to
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implement measures, which includes all the genders in significant issues which are affecting the
states.
Conclusion
In conclusion, politics to some greater extent needs a lot of influential variables. Getting
declared to be the winner of a certain political office is not just about being popular and having
deeper connections to influential people in the political offices. Politics shape the country in
terms of leadership, economic abilities, and the describing the social scenery. Bad politics have
an influence to the residents of a state. Some can be marred with positivity, while bad politicking
can be a danger to the welfare of any nation. When talking about politics, one should be careful
not to cause incitement, which might lead to political wrangles. That is why; decorum is
applicable in politics. Failure to have some formatted rules and regulations that guide the people
in the political world and protect the immediate people who get affected by the outcome of the
politics, can cause astounding impacts. In this exposition, evaluations of the significant political
communication factors that led to the ascension of Donald Trump to the political office have
been described. The role of the media has been largely assessed to have an influence on the
politics. Populist ideologies, which propagate the ambitions of the political candidates, have been
accredited, to indicate the confines of this applicable theoretical disclosure in a practical world.
Besides, an implication of the politics in the United States of America to the state of political
communication in the current age, have been described in this paper. In this paper, various
implications such as the significance of the media, fiscal abilities, and the constructed steps of
prospecting to complete any task, in this case, when vying for a political office, have been
attributed to the findings in this paper.
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