A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Rhetorical Animosity Against Illegal Immigrants

This study looked at the discourses used by former U.S. President Trump against immigrants. Specifically, rhetorical expressions, metaphorical approaches, semantic linguistic features, and classifications of ideologies in political were explored. Findings show that contained various expressions discourse patterns his speeches. With use conceptual metaphor theory for analysis, it showed he expressed racism immigrants immigration speeches also pieces evidence negative towards illegal discursive components could be very instrumental determining how politicians or leaders express their on issue immigration, racism, other socio-political issues a country.