What is it about?
This study explores how U.S. President Donald Trump employs Twitter as a strategic instrument of power politics. The findings show how Trump uses an informal, direct, and provoking communication style to construct and reinforce the concept of a homogeneous people and a homeland threatened by the dangerous other.
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Why is it important?
The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the 45th US President's use of Twitter, and how it may lead to the normalization of right-wing populist discourses.
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This page is a summary of: The “Tweet Politics” of President Trump, Journal of Language and Politics, June 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.17032.kre.
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