On
October 13, first lady, Michelle Obama spoke about presidential nominee Donald
Trump and his actions towards women at a Hillary Clinton campaign event.
Michelle Obama has been the first lady for the past eight years and she has
gone through two presidential campaigns. Like a large majority of people voting
she has followed the election and has heard about Trump’s treatment of women. Michelle’s
speech was sparked by the recent leaked audio tape of Donald Trump and Billy
Bush. On the tape Trump and Bush are heard making disrespectful comments about
women and even mentioning sexually assaulting them.
Michelle’s
main purpose of the speech is to convince voters to vote for Hillary Clinton over
Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. Her primary audience is
people who are eligible to vote for this year’s election. However, since she is
at a Hillary Clinton event a majority of her audience is already against Trump.
Michelle uses aggressive diction when talking about Trump and his behavior
towards women. Words like, ‘shameful’, ‘cruel’, and ‘frightening’. She tries to
portray to the audience that everything Trump says has a negative connotation
towards women. Michelle also achieves her purpose by listing the effects that
could possibly come out of Trump’s presidency. She mentions how young girls
will feel less confident and valued by the way Trump talks about women. She
also talks about how young boys and men will begin to repeat the things that
Trump says and thus creating an unsafe environment for women.
Michelle
achieves her purpose by providing true facts about Trump being a disrespectful
and superficial person towards women. She rebuts the other side of people thinking
Trump’s comments with Bush were just ‘locker-room talk’ by acknowledging the
nature of the topic. She continuously says in her speech how Trump can only
bring negative changes to the country if he wins presidency instead of positive
ones like Clinton will.
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