Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency

Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9783030505516
ISBN-13 : 3030505510
Rating : 4/5 (510 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency by : Shannon Bow O'Brien

Download or read book Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency written by Shannon Bow O'Brien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Donald Trump's longstanding connections to professional wrestling in relation to how he uses and exploits language, and the ways in which he has weaponized going public never before seen in previous administrations. Trump utilizes the language of wrestling to make rhetorical appeals and draws upon its theatrical tactics to redefine expectations of spaces to fundamentally change the nature of political expectations and expression. Wrestling is almost always about stories within a confined space, and Donald Trump inculcated many of its techniques to command an audience with rhetoric. The emotional performance supersedes truth or accuracy; factual exactness matters less than your presentation of the material. As Donald Trump blends performance and public service, social confusion over boundaries has occurred. Theatrical norms, when applied to daily life, generate vastly different reactions than within the artificial confines of an arena. It is not simply a muddling of public and private, but rather a jumbling of theatrical and generalized social standards. This book examines these aspects and explores how Donald Trump has also utilized well-established presidential tools in completely new ways in an attempt to build the strongest executive branch in American history.


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