Untrustworthy Trumps America

As we all should know, Donald Trump is our next president of the United States. Untrustworthy and change has indeed won over the hearts of the American people and the oval office. Exit polling has shown how Trump made history Wednesday morning by pulling off one of the most improbable election victories. His win caught us all by surprise, we thought so many people were going against him after his comments and scandals, but in the end, did they really?

Exit polling showed that 49 percent of white college graduates voted for Trump and 45 percent of them said they voted for Clinton. Though we didn’t think that white college graduates would support Trump, according to many class discussions, this was not the case. However, him not winning much of the minority parties was one correct aspect that was called by many people prior to Election Day. Many people were not particularly enthusiastic about any candidate, but they still decided that Trump was the lesser of the two evils and most of them still voted for Trump.

With the many October surprises, and Trump’s consistent rhetoric about crooked Hillary, he set up a nearly perfect rhetorical situation for the country to partake in. Through his speeches, his tone in campaign commercials, and day-to-day activity, he made America feel as though it was not safe and his enthymematic slogan, “Make America Great Again,” did nothing but helped feed into this narrative. Though Trump seemed as though he didn’t have all his marbles throughout the campaign, his lack of “mouthing off” and controlling himself made voters see the man he could really be, and therefore he won their vote.

Trump had a big lead among people who said they dislike both candidates.

Donald Trump may not have been everyone’s favored candidate, but he is the one who pulled out the win. As predicted in class, America wants to see change, and change is definitely what’s in store. At the end of the day, Americans favored Trump’s untrustworthiness over Hillary’s instability.

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  1. Great post! I appreciate how you brought up how close the votes were between white college educated voters between the two candidates. I think this is something that we were all surprised by because of what we have heard in class from Dr. Panetta and from the polls in general. It is also important how you brought up Trump’s communications tactics of streamlining the story of “crooked Hillary.” I really think this is part of what sealed the deal for him, because he was so persistent with this naming throughout his campaign.

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