President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse

Michele Lockhart, PhD, is a faculty member in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas and serves as the Director of Programs and Accreditation for Academic Affairs and Office of the Provost. Her recent publications, co-edited with Kathleen Mollick, include Political Women: Language and Leadership (2013), Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric (2014), and Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse (2015).

• INTRODUCTION by Michele LockhartPART I: THE CAMPAIGN, THE TWITTERSPHERE, AND THE "NEW AGE" OF RHETORIC: TRUTH VERSUS REALITY1. Seizing the Populist Rhetorical Toolkit: a Comparative Analysis of Trump and Clinton’s Discourse on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign by Francisco Seoane Pérez, Irene Asiaín Román, and Javier Lorenzo Rodríguez2. Of Twit-storms and Demagogues: Trump, Illusory Truths of Patriotism, and the Language of the Twittersphere by Dawn F. Colley3. The Dark Alchemy of Donald Trump: Re-inventing Presidential Rhetorics through Christian and "New Age" Discourses by Lance CummingsPART II: POWER AND ABUSE ABROAD AND AT HOME: FOREIGN POLICY VIA TWITTERVERSE, "BULLSHIT," AND "NUT JOB"4. President Trump’s Tweets on the Middle East, North Korea, and Russia: the Constructive and the Unconstructive by Anish Dave5. The Paradox of Dissent: Bullshit and the Twitter Presidency by Christopher Carter6. Crazy, Insane, Nut Job, Wacko, Basket Case, and Psycho: Donald Trump’s Tweets Surrounding Mental Health Issues and Attacks on Media Personalities by Sarah Smith-Frigerio and J. Brian Houston7. Habitat for Inhumanity: How Trolls Set the Stage for @realDonaldTrump by Erec SmithPART III: "FAKE NEWS" AND MADNESS: READ, RE-TWEET, AND TEACH ALL ABOUT IT8. Tweet the Press: Effects of Donald Trump’s "Fake News!" Epithet on Civics and Popular Culture by Dorian Hunter Davis and Aram Sinnreich9. Setting the "Fake News" Agenda: Trump’s Use of Twitter and the Agenda-Building Effect by Rod Carveth10. Digital Sophistry: Trump, Twitter, and Teaching about Fake News by Bryan A. Lutz

As the Twitter president, Donald Trump has revolutionized how candidates and presidents interact with audiences domestically and globally. Michele Lockhart’s edited volume answers the call for serious study of Trump’s Twitter language and its impact, making President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse a timely addition to any classroom.-Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland, USAIf you’re wondering how President Trump’s churning tweets are utterly redefining American political rhetoric, then this collection provides a sufficient and necessary baseline where, as Yeats warned, “the ceremony of innocence is drowned.” While social media isn’t always social, it’s always rhetorical, and — for this attentive editor and these critically engaged scholars — strangely beautiful. -Hugh Burns, Texas Woman's University, USA