Having familiarized yourself with Anderson’s list of common logical fallacies (p. 112-115), as well as the interactive definitions available on the website yourlogicalfallacyis.com , take the opportunity to take a politician to task.
Chose any politician campaigning for the 2016 presidential election, and take a look at some of their recent stump speeches, debate snippets, and press conference remark. Identify at least one fallacious statement among something they’ve said.
Then, in a comment here (150 words), name the politician, quote the statement (using appropriate quoting techniques), identify the logical fallacy of which the politician is guilty, and explain exactly where and how their logic went awry. What about their rhetoric fell into the “trap” of a fallacy? Is there some way they could makea similar point more logically?
Academic Writing: ENGL 160 
As Donald Trump says, “The Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them.” This is either a cause and effect or hasty generalization logical fallacy in my opinion. I chose these fallacies because when Trump says, “they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them” he is making a generalization that the Mexican government is doing something without sufficient evidence to prove this. Also, I believe this is a slippery slope fallacy because the Mexican government is much smarter, they are sending bad people to the United States. By Trump stating this, he is saying that because the government is smarter, they are the cause of bad immigrants coming to the United States. Trump’s quote turned into a fallacy when he started to assume things without sufficient evidence. He can turn this into something more logical by giving more evidence to back up what he is saying.
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Building a border across Mexico and U.S. to solve illegal immigration. False Dichotomy Line Drawing Fallacy (quite literally) Fallacy of Assumption Genetic Fallacy. Assuming Mexicans are the only illegal immigrants in the United States Trump wants to build a wall between Mexico and U.S., the line has been drawn in the sand to keep them all out (and to keep Americans out of Mexico —Like Berlin Germany’s once superb wall technology; no one gets in (and no one gets out of America so easily) but rest assured there’s always Canada right? But some Canadians and Americans want a wall in the northern border too (great your surrounded or isolated). Anyway there is another choice and solution to illegal immigration- start enforcing the law! 🙂
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Wow, your entire response is one logical fallacy followed by another. Cherry picking a single statement and not filling it in with all the other positions on the issue that tie them all together is in itself a logical fallacy. Cherry picking, refers to selective extraction of points in an argument in order to refute or affirm them while ignoring others which will not support the point(s) being made. Trump has very definitely said that he would build the wall. But that wall already was approved by Congress over a decade ago, AND, the funds for it were already appropriated. Then, to make matters worse, not once has Donald Trump once said that a wall would keep them all out. So what you have done here is put up a logical fallacy known as the straw man. You put forth a position or argument claimed to be that of your opponent, then you knock it down claiming victory over this argument. Finally, you use the Anecdotal Evidence fallacy with the quip about the Berlin wall and since that wall was designed to keep people “IN” and not “OUT”, it was most certainly a wall with a different purpose and reason. Next time to try and attribute logical fallacies to someone, please research the fallacies you are trying to present and make sure your quotes are accurate and consistent with the person you are quoting.
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The most prominent political speaker that is caught arguing with logical fallacies is Donald Trump. Trump states, ” If Hillary can’t satisfy her husband [then] what makes her think she can satisfy America”.This ad hominem is used to undermine Hillary Clinton’s ability to be president in the United States. It is also a false cause because Trump is pinning one of Bill Clinton’s mistakes onto Hillary, stating if she were able to “satisfy” her husband, he would have not cheated. This is none of Hillary’s concern or business to look over her husband’s actions when she has her own agenda to attend to. This anecdotal uses one social event as evidence that Hillary cannot perform an adequate job. It is also a hazy generalization that women only have one purpose in life: to satisfy their husbands. Trump immediately assumes situations and expresses strict gender roles where they may not exist. He could have given a different example to express the concern he has for Hillary.
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Since we worked on Donald Trump quotes during class, I try to branch out from him and work on some other politician’s quotes. I researched Hilary Clinton and some other candidates, but did not find anything that seemed to have any logical fallacies, although I’m sure there are some if I looked deep into it. I decided to google “2016 most absurd candidates quotes” and as I scrolled down the list, it all mentioned Donald Trump. So I yielded and clicked the link “The 10 best lines from Donald Trump’s announcement speech” (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-2016-announcement-10-best-lines-119066#ixzz3nfPDVjfh).
On his GOP rivals, he said “The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs. They didn’t know the room was too big because they didn’t have anybody there. How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.”
This is a mixture of ad hominem, hasty generalization, non sequitur, false analogy. It can be a mixture of all these fallacies listed in the book.
Ad hominem: He compares these candidates to “dogs.” He mentions how they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work; therefore, they cannot beat ISIS, according to Trump.
Hasty generalization: Does the fact that they were sweating in the failure of acknowledging that the AC was off anywhere relevant to beating ISIS?
Non Sequitur: Trump points out the unrelated statement to something extreme as ISIS as a claim and reason.
False Analogy: Are the sweating of a human body comparable to beating ISIS?
I don’t know how you can insert logic into this kind of statement. To make it logical, you would have to completely change up the whole sentence and even the speaker himself, for Donald Trump has proven himself no where near logical.
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You forgot Ad Populum. “They didn’t know the room was too big because they didn’t have anybody there.” He infers that they have far less supporters and are unpopular thus they’d be unable to beat ISIS. Not logical at all.
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As we all know, Donald Trump is running for the 2016 presidential election. He is widely known for the illogical things he says on twitter, in interviews and during speeches. On his twitter, Trump remarked, “Why is Obama playing basketball today? That is why our country is in trouble!” I would describe this quote as either an ad hominem or hasty generalization logical fallacy. I would call it an ad hominem because Trump is attacking Obama by saying that because he plays basketball, our country is in trouble. He is using personal information that has nothing to do with his argument. I would also consider this quote as a hasty generalization because Obama playing basketball has nothing to do with our country’s problems. Trump is drawing a conclusion from evidence that is irrelevant. In order to make his point more logical he should give evidence that relates to his argument and give reasons as to how Obama is supposedly creating problems in our country.
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In one of Donald Trump’s speech, he says, ““I’m not saying they’re stupid. I like China. I just sold an apartment for $15 million. Am I supposed to dislike ‘em? … People say you don’t like China. No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. And we can’t sustain ourselves with that. It’s like, take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team.” One of the fallacies used in this quote is False analogy. This is because he compares China and us with a NFL team to a high school football team. This quote can also be a Non sequitur. This is because the fallacy does not follow and the things he compare are unrelated at all. I think Trump can make these quotes in his speech more logical by using comparisons that are more related to one each other.
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Donald Trump recently stated in a speech, “”I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me —and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” This quote can be classified as a non sequitur. The claim is completely illogical and it is clearly a claim that could never happen, nor does it address any current issue. This argument can’t really formulate a logical statement, but if Trump wants to make a logical argument in this case, he should state actual reasons why the U.S does not benefit from immigrants.
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I took a fallacy from a speech Donald Trump made a couple of months ago. Donald Trump said, “We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them.” This quote is an example of circular reasoning. He mentions that we do not have victories anymore in this country. He then later says, we use to have them, but no we don’t. He is just saying that we do not have victories anymore in a different way. He could make this point better by actually mentioning or giving examples of why we do not have victories anymore. He should also mention when we did have victories, how did we accomplish these victories.
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This is a quote from Donald Trump about Elizabeth Beck, who a few years back asked to pause a meeting so she could use her breast pump to pump milk for her 3 month old daughter in front of him. This apparently repulsed Trump, who lashed out at her and called her disgusting. She later filed a law suit against him and Trump felt wrongly attacked at her summary of what had happened. So he decided to voice his opinions by saying, “She made it up. She made it up,” he said. “She’s saying, ‘Oh, he was so violent and he was so, so wild and she was afraid.’ She was afraid of nobody. She’s a tough killer in Miami everyone knows she’s a killer. They all hate her.” Firstly, calling her disgusting in front of multiple people for wanting to perform a normal human action for her daughter was outrageously rude. Secondly, he had the audacity to state that she is hated by people. This is an ad hominem because he outwardly attacks Banks. It is a red herring as well when he brings up how she’s a ‘tough killer’ in Miami, slyly bringing up something not related to the argument at hand.
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The most logical political campaigning for 2016 presidential election is Donald Trump. He stated “The Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them.” I would consider this to be hasty generalization. I chose this fallacy because Trump is saying that the Mexican is doing something without any proof of evidence. It can also be slippery slope because they are sending bad people to the United States.
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Donald Trump recently stated, “I love the Hispanics… I have many of them working for me right now.” The fallacy that trump is guilty of here is red herring. I believe this statement was meant to be a distraction for Hispanics in America to dissuade them from thinking Trump is a bad person for the idea of building a wall to separate the U.S. from Mexico. This statement was a humorous way of Trump saying he loves that the cheap labor is increasing his revenue. Another humorous statement expressed by Trump was, ” Jeb Bush is a low energy person, so low energy when you watch him you fall asleep.” I found this quote to be Ad- hominem mainly because its a personal attack on Jeb Bush’s character. The use of the phrase “low energy” makes the statement more on the offensive it gives the statement a motive that this is meant to be an attack. To clear this up Trump could have said Jeb Bush isn’t the most enthusiastic candidate running for president. This makes the statement less childish and personal.
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As George Pataki stated, ” I would not place one American life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary, but to destroy ISIS, it is necessary.” I my opinion, I think its a bold statement and the logical fallacy that this quote falls under is Cause and Effect. The reason why I choice this fallacy is because how Pataki is trying seem like a good person by saying he will not put an single American in danger but then says, “Destroy ISIS”. Destroying ISIS would cause a lot of problem in the United States and also I think that’s when the logic went awry. I feel like he falls into a trap of his own, because now he has to possibly give details on his plan to “destroy” ISIS. I Think he could have make a similar point by changing Destroy ISIS to saving the world or making the world a better place for the people.
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I chose a quote by Donald Trump in which he said “Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations!”. I would say this quote is both hasty generalization and slippery slope.
I consider it to be hasty generalizing because Trump here is assuming that all Blacks who will run for presidency will do a poor job, as Obama supposedly did.
I also consider this to be slipper slope, because Trump says that just because Obama did a “poor job” as president we will not see another Black president for a while. Following this logic, we should not see a white president for a while either because of even the poorer job George Bush did as president, when compared with what Obama did.
Trump could have made his point more logically by either rewording his comment so it could remove the stereo-typical meaning in it towards the blacks, or by simply keeping his mouth shut.
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Hillary Clinton is one of the top candidates who is running for 2016 presidential election. Looking into her speech, I found on YouTube where Hillary was being interviewed at Hollis; New Hampshire and Hillary was asked “ what do you make of what Obama said ‘”ruining for president and being president is different’” (Carrie Dann). Hillary did not answer the question right away. Instead she created a distraction, red herring, in her answer by going to other topics like providing diplomacy and removing Asad, the president of Syria, form his position. She doesn’t get back to the question until after talking about many other things hence this creates confusion and mislead people. The topics she talks about is are not relevant to the question she was asked.
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Donald Trump tweeted “What people don’t know about Kasich- he was a managing partner of the horrendous Lehman Brothers when it totally destroyed the economy!”
A very bold statement, considering Trump has filed for bankruptcy several times himself, this quote can be related to the logical fallacy of the Ad hominem. Trump instead of attacking Kasich on his political agenda, he decided to take a jab at him at his previous occupation in hopes of persuading the American people to see Mr. Kasich as an unsuccessful candidate for 2016. Trump directly attack his occupation rather than his ideas on politics. Maybe trump was trying to avoid political ideas since his are atrocious for a lack of a better term.
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Presidential campaigns are filled with false promises and bold statements, but those ridiculous statements have been proven to win over voters when presented in a logical manner. For the 2016 election though, many candidates have failed to deliver their word in a logical format, the most relevant of these candidates being Donald Trump. Donald Trump has displayed no restraint, fear, or regret for any of his very controversial opinions which he not only states offensively, but also often in the form of a logical fallacy. On the topic of racial tension and segregation, Donald Trump has this to say, “You look at Baltimore, you look at Cleveland. You look at all of those places, just exploding. We have an African-American president [and] we’ve never had it so bad.” With this statement it can be determined that Donald Trump is guilty of committing the logical fallacy of false cause. In a false cause fallacy the speaker presumes that a real or perceived relationship between two things means that one is the cause of the other. Donald Trump speaks of President Obama as if he were the direct cause of racial tension within America, while clearly Pres. Obama has done everything in his power to calm the racial storm brewing in his nation. Donald Trump’s blind allegations most certainly attract press, but his own logical fallacies will not result in a successful campaign.
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Recently I was watching the GOP debate that happened in august because ive been dreading to watch it. While watching it I found the perfect quote that equally offended me and made me laugh at the same time, “Our leaders are stupid, our politicians are stupid, and the Mexican government is much sharper, much more cunning. [So] they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them, they don’t want to take care of them.” —GOP debate, August 2015. After hearing this I was shocked that Donald trump would even say that, he’s using an ad hominem and attacking the US government and name calling them stupid when the Mexican government really has no time to be worrying about who is fleeing mexico to come to the states because of how bad things have gotten there recently.
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While Donald Trump has plenty of quotes that fit into logical fallacies, there are other candidates who makes similar quotes. One of them is Ben Carson, who says, “a Muslim’s brain is wired differently than ours” and explains that the brain “has very low orbital cortex activity, which means less than normal suppression of behaviors such as rage and violence…I would certainly not advocate for a Muslim to ever be president…”
The fallacy here is a slippery slope, as Carson believes that if a Muslim became president, it will become disastrous because they cannot control their anger. It is also a hasty generalization because he states that a Muslim’s brain is different from ours, so they aren’t fit for presidency.
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Donald Trump seemed like the easiest presidential candidate to take fallacies out of his speeches because of his often outrageous remarks. His concerns of the United States taking losses at every corner such as Japan “beating” us by them sending over cars. But especially when he said, “When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity.” This cause and effect fallacy is a head scratch er to me. With Trump’s strong views of keeping illegal immigrants from crossing the border, his claim that those who cross mock the U.S. and calls it “stupid.” But in fact, many of the immigrants come to the U.S. to start new lives, to have opportunity. They don’t cross just because they want to, for many, they have to cross to have better lives or even just to have safer lives.
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While all the candidates to the 2016 presidential election have had their share in logical fallacies, In my opinion, the one that shares the most logical fallacies is Donald Trump. In one speech, in which Trump so confidently attacks Mexican’s, he stated “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” after hearing this, I have to admit I was in shock. I didn’t expect for him to express like that about people whom he has hired to work in his hotels and his companies. One logical fallacy that this is, is “Hasty generalization.” Hasty generalization means drawing conclusions based on inefficient evidence. Clearly Donald Trump does not have enough evidence to make such assumptions. Like many in the Latino community have stated, not all Mexicans bring drugs, Not many Mexicans bring crimes, and Not all of us our Rapist. If Donald Trump has these assumptions about Mexicans, why hire them to work for his company? Why hire them to have these so called “criminals” near him. I know if I disliked something, I’d want it away from me, especially if they would affect me in any way. Many Mexicans are hard working people who try their best to give their families and provide back for the nation. Yes, our Mexican community isn’t perfect. While there are a few drug dealers who originate from Mexico, while there are some criminals who come from a Mexican background and so on, there are also good people. Every race has their good and bad. Trump based his beliefs on what he sees on the news most likely. The whole “El Chapo” thing probably sealed the deal for him. But how about he sees those Mexicans who work in factories day in-day out. Those people who work two jobs to put their kids through school, and who give anything they can to provide for their family. There are always two sides to every story.
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Presidential Candidate: Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush is a former Governor of Florida as well as a Republican candidate for President. However, some of the things he has said hasn’t be so perfect or kind. When asked how he planned to try to get the black vote, he responded “Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one pf division and get in line we we’ll take care of you with free stuff” (Bush, 2015). That was a quite rude statement. This comment is a classic case of red herring. He doesn’t quite talk about how he will include the black vote, but insults the way in which the Democratic candidates may appeal to the African-American (black) voters. He doesn’t answer the question but simply makes a distraction by pointing out the flaws of other candidates. And to believe that people appeal to “free stuff” while his hope and aspirations hasn’t done a single thing to help an African-American voter.
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As we have all seen, Donald Trump has been in the national spotlight for the presidential debates. He owes much of this spotlight to his controversial comments that seem to bother many minorities in this country. One of Trump’s various controversial comments was when he said, “The Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don’t want to pay for them.” This quote is an example of a hasty generalizations because Trump does not have sufficient evidence, or any evidence, that the Mexican government is doing this. In reality, for the most part, the Mexican government is unaware of the people that migrate to the United States illegally. The people that choose to do this, do it because they want to, not because the government forced them to. One thing that Trump could make this a logical statement is by showing concrete evidence on how the Mexican government sends over the “bad ones.”
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From the information I have gathered about the different campaigns I have realized that the most common fallacy is the hasty generalization, all speeches are filled with them. The example of Dr. Ben Carson wasn’t any different when we said “America remains a place of dreams … have you ever noticed that there’s a lot of people trying to get in here and not a lot of people trying to escape?” While he uses the question mark to appeal to the emotion of the audience and try to touch the audience’s pride of this country I feel that the sentence itself doesn’t stand on a solid reasoning. It is true that the immigration rates in the United States are high, but no one said that the reason for that was because the country was “a place of dreams.” To defend that statement we would have to know the cause that is making people from other countries come here, and maybe that reason is more powerful than any image America (United States) can give.
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Donald Trump: the Proprietor of Fallacies. His arguments are composed of fallacies while his evidence is derived from the same untrue (and often illogical) statements. One of Trumps more controversial statements were in reference to the alleged plethora of criminals that are fleeing from Mexico. He, Donald Trump, blatantly states that this is true; that the only immigrants that are coming over are the worst of people This is statement is fallacious for many reasons, but besides the obvious racial prejudice he has, he makes an effort to pretend like the millions of the now Mexican-American immigrants aren’t productive and hardworking individuals who are leading incredible/ honest lives.
And obviously there are probable criminals coming over, because a criminal can be found any group of people/ at any age, but the criminal activity can arguably be a result of economic hardships that they have been bombarded with– but that isn’t the problem. Donald Trump and his political views are the problem, but I digress.
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In Donald Trump’s infamous speech about immigration, he says that “The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.” This is a hasty generalization because most illegal immigrants are escaping from poverty in their own country by coming to the United States. Trump is generalizing all Mexicans and saying that all of them are bad people, which is not the case. They want to start a new life. He doesn’t have enough evidence to prove that the illegal immigrants are bad people. A lot of Trump’s speeches have logical fallacies in them.
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During class we focused on Donald Trump and we focused on quotes that he delivered during a speech. To me now that caught my attention was reading Mexico when he stated, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” This quote is an example of a Hasty Generalization and it can also be an Either/Or fallacy. This is because Trump is making assumptions regarding the people that come from Mexico, and he is stating that all the people are the same, when in reality it is not true due to the fact that he does not know for sure that all the people that come from Mexico are the same way that he is stating. I was in shock because Trump has to realize that there are many Mexican people that are here and that they are hard working people and not criminals.
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The politician I choose is Donald Trump. He tends to say a lot of crazy things so fallacies are very easy to point out. In a statement about Rubio,Trump commented “Take a look at his past, he’s got $12 in the bank.” This is an Ad hominem. I say this because Trump is just focusing on his financial stability in regards to humiliating him when it has nothing to do with running for president. Ii guess Donald Trump could make this fallacy more promising if he included why that matters when it comes to running for president of the United States
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As I researched on the various candidates of the 2016 Republican Election, I discovered Donald Trump was a pretty easy character to write about logical fallacies. I couldn’t believe what he said about Mexicans. He said the Mexican government is sending “criminals and drug dealers” across the borders of America. He probably thinks all Mexicans are criminals and drug dealers. This can be associated as an ad hominem and also a hasty generalization. He went on to call the American government ‘stupid.’ It’s because of its stupidity that there’s illegal immigration. This can be regarded as a cause and effect fallacy.
Trump’s business was examined. It seems that his company had gone bankrupt four times and he had said he had used laws of the country to correct this situation. He was asked, “Why should we trust you to run the nation’s business?” Trump answered with a repetition on his claim- ‘using the laws of the country.’ This can be regarded as circular reasoning. Then he goes on to say he has used these laws… ‘like other people.’ He creates a small distraction by using the red herring logical fallacy. He pushes the blame to a bunch of imaginary people.
Trump really needs to filter what he says in public about the government and the people; after all, he is not president yet.
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Donald Trump has stated ““You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” This quote is non sequitur because he’s doesn’t address the issue with today’s media instead blaming it on being young and having an ass. This claim is certainly ridiculous and most certainly will not be forgotten and doesn’t help anything. I don’t see the point of these claim but if this is what Trump thinks of the media then good luck to him on his Presidential run.
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Donald Trump with his, “I started from the bottom, I really did. I grew up in Brooklyn and my dad started me up with a SMALL loan of a million dollars.” So The hasty generalization that EVERYONE from Brooklyn lives in a humble state and that the one million wasn’t much to a big time millionaire, automatically makes him a character who started from humble beginnings. It doesn’t seem to match up to people who really had NO loans, NO way of breaking past any type of poor state that managed to actually become someone or something. It might be a stretch, but it seems like everyone else took Donald Trump quotes so I chose one from a really long time ago from an interview, hope that was right.
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I’m going to jump on the TrumpTrain because who doesn’t like the Trump? Anyways one of my favorite quotes from him and the one that I really wanted to get on here is “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” First of I want to thank Trump for making this assignment so much easier and two the wording of that quote is very entertaining to say the least, but I digress. The first fallacy I noticed here is Ad Populum, it incorporates with the quote because Trump wanted to make it seem as if he is popular with the people and therefore more people should like and vote for him by saying the he has “a great relationship with the blacks.” The second fallacy that Trump seems to nail in just about every thing he’s said on while broadcast is Missing the Point. His claim does seem to support a conclusion, but just not the conclusion he wanted. Reading the quote would make it seem like Trump is completely on the opposite of having “a good relationship with the blacks.”
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the poltician i chose is donald trump. while being interviewed he is told that he refers to woman as “fat pigs” (and other names) and he responds with “only rosie odonnell.” first of all, trump does not personally know rosie, and he is known for calling out the female population in general. i chose hasty generalization for this quote, because trump makes unknowledgeable assumptions about rosie odonell and women. he only makes those remarks about her because he simply does not like her, and it has nothing to do with the debate or presidential race.
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Donald Trump has spoken on many things in the political race. One of the most talked about subjects or topics tat he has spoke on was the border the separates Mexico and America. He has stated that he loves Mexicans and also has some working for him. However he has also stated that he wants to get rid of the Mexicans and build a wall and make the Government of Mexico pay for the wall. The fallacy here is red herring, though he has made comments of his love for Mexicans I feel that he is using this as bait, to bait them in while he has other plans for them.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/donald-trump-oregon-mass-shooting-gunmen-geniuses
Within this article Trump speaks of the mass shooting gunmen, and in doing so , he manipulates fallacies so everyone can relate to him and how he feels. Trump says “Because you have sick people. They happen to be intelligent. And, you know, they can be sick as hell and they’re geniuses in a certain way. They are going to be able to break the system.” Within this quote I witnessed a few fallacies. One of them were cause and effect. Trump confuses one thing (“Sick People”)that precedes the next thing (“Break[ing] the system”) in a sequence as being the cause of the second element. Another fallacy I caught was slippery slope. Trump assumes that these sick people will lead to the system being broke which is a severe consequence. The last fallacy seen was circular reasoning. Trump restates the fact that they intelligent and “they’re geniuses” as support for his initial position. I understand that Trump uses plenty of fallacies to help himself in his current position its a smart thing to do.
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