Trumping Truth

Salvador Jiménez Murguía is associate professor of sociology at Akita International University in Japan.

• Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Trump Administration Observations(Not So) White Lies: “Rapists,” “Bad Hombres” and Donald Trump’s Conflation of “Mexicans” with “Illegal Immigration”During an Era of Declining Migration from Mexico (Justin D. García)The Irony at the Heart of Fake News and Alternative Facts (Robin Blom)“Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required”: Donald Trump’s War on Journalism (Jim Clarke)Departing from the Truth and Alternative Realities: The Wrongful Death of Marvin Booker (Sig Langegger )Part 2: Philosophical ObservationsSophistry Redux: Mythology and Ancient Rhetoric Reborn in the Trump Age (Andrew Grossman)On Faith/Trust and Confidence in an Alterfactual Sense (Sabatino DiBernardo)What Is a Politician? (Christopher W. Thurley) Part 3: Historical ObservationsOf Crowd Sizes and Casualties: The Ominous Similarities Between ­Trump-Era America and Wartime Japan in the Use of Alternative Facts (Sean D. ­O’Reilly)Wild Irishmen, Alternative Facts and the Construction of America’s First “Wall” (Debra Reddin van Tuyll)The Alternative Electorate: Mapping ­Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud in the 2016 Election (Jacopo della Quercia)Part 4: Pop Cultural ObservationsSpeaking ­Post-Truth to Power: Comedy as Alternative Facts in Saturday Night Live (Melanie Piper)The Oven That Cooked Up Pizzagate: 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board and ­Alt-Right Conspiracy Culture (Jeffrey J. Hall)From Mary Tyler Moore to Kellyanne Conway: Constructing a Synthetic Media Environment (Terri Toles Patkin )About the ContributorsBibliographyIndex